NTSC mini DV camcorder to Pal Dvd Recorder

I bought a sony mini dv camcorder in USA but can not burn ntsc format dv tapes with my dvd recorder. Can anyone tell me of ways to overcome this problem, any help would be realy welcome.

Hi,
I would suspect that you will have to put it onto computer first and then use software ( i.e. Pinnacle ) to transfer it to PAL. I dont know if their will be a quality reduction but try it anyway. Let me know how you get on please.

Blarney

timh65 said:

I bought a sony mini dv camcorder in USA but can not burn ntsc format dv tapes with my dvd recorder. Can anyone tell me of ways to overcome this problem, any help would be realy welcome.

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Tim, you might find find that the US camcorder has a setting somewhere to record on PAL. The Mini DV tape is not the issue, but how it is recorded.

If the camcorder will only record in NTSC format, as Blarney says you can bring it to your PC using a Firewire / IEEE 1394 connection and convert it to PAL using software such as TMPGenc which is very powerful but not for the fainthearded.

Thanks for your replys but, there had to be a but! I have no dv in on my camcorder. what I realy was looking for was a way to burn directly to DVD on a stand alone DVD recorder with the ability to burn from NTSC format.

timh65 said:

Thanks for your replys but, there had to be a but! I have no dv in on my camcorder. what I realy was looking for was a way to burn directly to DVD on a stand alone DVD recorder with the ability to burn from NTSC format.

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I don't follow you - probably too much sun over the weekend - you want to record NTSC video onto a DVD using a standalone (home) DVD recorder (as opposed to a PC-based one)? What has this got to do with a camcorder?

DVD recorders bought in Europe will probably only record to PAL although I could be wrong.

On a PC, it is not so much the burning but the video conversion that is the issue - you can create MPEG video in PAL or NTSC format, or convert it or read it from your camcorder in one format and convert it to another (although it is a slow process which requires a lot of hard disk space and specialist software such as those mentioned previously in this thread.)