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More info?)
Thanks guys, your help is appreciated.
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 08:05:12 GMT, " -"
<johan.ogren@gamma.telenordia.se> wrote:
>Try www.vcdhelp.com, they have guides for all sorts of convertions.
>
>PAL is 25 frames/s and NTSC is something else (23.99 or 29.??) so you'll
>need to separate audio and picture, convert framrate and then combine the
>audio with the new video framrate...sort of anyway
>
>I've done the opposite a few times with fearly good result (NTSC DV
>Camcorder mpegs to PAL mpegs)
>
> / J
>
>
>"Ben Pope" <spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:2m068tFgoneoU1@uni-berlin.de...
>> Malam wrote:
>> > Is there any way that I can use the ATI AIW card to convert an video
>> > movie done in PAL to the North American format ? Is there any software
>> > to do it?
>>
>>
>> On what media is this movie?
>>
>> If it's PAL, I take it it's something like video cassette? You could
>always
>> capture it to AVI and then play it back as NTSC (Never The Same Colour),
>but
>> not using one AIW card as it will be either PAL OR NTSC. So it depends on
>> whether your AIW is PAL or NTSC as to what other hardware you will likely
>> require. Of course, you may be able to make use of S-Video, but again
>that
>> depends on what other hardware you have. The answer is no, you can't do
>it
>> with just your AIW.
>>
>> There are effectively three systems, NTSC (Never The Same Colour) in
>> America, SECAM (System Essentially Contrary to the American Method) in
>> various parts of the world and PAL (Perfect At Last) on my side of the
>pond
>> (UK)
>>
>> If you tell us the media your PAL video is on, how you intend on getting
>it
>> into your AIW, the system your AIW works on, and what output device you
>> intend to connect your AIW to, one of us may be able to come up with a
>> solution. It would also be useful to know what connectors (S-Video,
>> Composite, SCART etc) your input (video recorder, camcorder etc) and
>output
>> (video recorder, TV etc) devices have.
>>
>> An example:
>> I have a PAL Video recorder with an S-Video connector I wish to connect to
>> my PAL AIW card. I would like to get the PAL signal onto an NTSC tape
>using
>> an NTSC video recorder which has an input SCART socket, and RCA socket.
>>
>> It would also be useful to know if you want sound, too - that should be
>far
>> less problematic than the video though.
>>
>> Or you could just buy one of these:
>>
http://www.scancom.plus.com/en-gb/dept_3.html
>>
>> But the quality probably isn't that great.
>>
>> Ben
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