Converting video problems

[erilyn]

Argh! I'm trying to capture an episode of Burning Zone (starring young!Papa Winchester and guest-starring luscious Nick Lea) from video to the computer. I've converted a number of things off tape, but apparently none of them must have been in NTSC format, cause I can't get this to work.

Audio comes through ok, but apart from a brief flicker of picture when I first play the tape, the picture doesn't display. I convert by using the video camera as a pass-through device. I've checked a PAL tape and it works fine, and I've checked another NTSC tape (one I'm pretty sure is in SP, cause I was thinking maybe the problem was the tape being NTSC LP or EP) and it's the same thing - sound but no picture. I've fiddled with the one NTSC-related setting I can find on the camera, and that hasn't helped.

Sorry people I offered to do this for - doesn't look like I'll be able to share it after all.

Comments

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

I use this program called Open Video Capture (http://www.download.com/Open-Video-Capture/3000-2139_4-10430213.html?tag=lst-0-1) to digitise tapes and it seems to work okay. Also, I hear that VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org) works well with video cameras. Have you tried either?

Another thing I can suggest is ripping the video in PAL format and then re-compressing it into NTSC using VirtualDub or some video converter?

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I'll check that out. I love VDub, but sadly it doesn't detect my camera for capturing purposes. At the moment, the picture just doesn't come through on the camera at all, the camera just doesn't seem to like NTSC, but I'll have another poke :)

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

I have other versions of that, maybe one of my others is in PAL...?

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Might be worth a check :)