DV NTSC/PAL problem

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I’ve got a SONY MiniDV PAL Cam in/out and a Pinnacle DV500 PAL.
I’m trying to capture some Mini DV tapes shot in the US with a MiniDV NTSC cam.
Watching them on any Pal TV set with either Composite or S-Vid out is no problem at all.
But when I capture it with Firewire on the PC it’s distorted and when capturing it with S-vid or composite it’s bad black and white.
Possible solutions:
1. Since the output of these NTSC tapes on a TV set with my Pal DVCam with composite or Svid is ok, I might try to by a secondhand DV500 NTSC. Would that work?
2. Lease or borrow a Mini DV NTSC cam; play it and just tape it on my MiniDV pal cam. Would that work?
3. Any other suggestion?

Any help will be appreciated.

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As far as I can see you need to do a format conversion. Capturing via firewire does not do any format conversion. I don't know if you can capture NTSC from a PAL camcorder via firewire, but I'm pretty sure there was a thread here about this topic already (would you mind to search?).

1. I assume that with an NTSC cam the capture would work (how would the NTSC people capture DV, if not?).

2. You mean, if you connect them via firewire? Never tried that, but I fear this doesn't work, because the receiving PAL cam expects a PAL DV stream.

3. Straightforward: You could capture the DV from an NTSC camcorder, then reencode to PAL DV using your DV editing software. If you need it on a PAL tape, you can upload the converted file through the DV-in plug of your PAL cam. If you'd like to create a DVD, just download the NTSC file and create a DVD from it without converting to PAL DV first. You can decide whether you want to create an NTSC DVD or a PAL DVD. If you go for a PAL DVD you have to cope with the well-known NTSC-to-PAL conversion problems, else your player must support NTSC DVDs.

Remark: I've never done this myself, so take my recommendations with a grain of salt...

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Thanks for the answer.
I've read every possible thread about this subject and tried every solution suggested, but what it comes down to in my case is that I've got a DV-PAL cam and there's no way I can properly capture an DV-NTSC tape from that one, so I have to rent, borrow or steal a DV-NTSC cam to do the job properly.
Once the DV is on my HD there's no prob anymore. I can convert it to whatever I want, but that's not necessary since I want to export it to a NTSC DVD.

cheers,