Hi8 Pal Recorded, looks fine on NTSC Cam. LCD, but not TV or DV out

I have several Hi8 Tapes, recorded on using a PAL camcorder in Europe.
When I got back, it plays fine on my NTSC camcorder internally (looks
perfect on the LCD), but I can't find a way to get it out of the NTSC
camera?

Is there ANY way to get the PAL recorded video out of Hi8 tape through
an NTSC cameras? It plays ok inside the NTSC camera, so the camera
internally does the right conversion it looks like, but I can't get the
video
out through s-video, dv-out, or analog, fames are
always scrolling down (or up). Any help would be appreaciated.

Ben

 

curious314159 wrote ...

Yes, a few cameras likely do this, but it is not something
you can depend on from every camcorder.

Highly unlikely. Some PAL equipment will play NTSC,
but almost no NTSC equipment will play PAL, unless it
is something specifically designed for multi-standard.
If you want something that will play PAL, it must be
designed to play PAL.

 

Sorry. Your tapes are encoded in an alien format: PAL. PAL differs
from NTSC in frame rate, color encoding, aspect ratio, and other more
subtle things. It is not physically possible to "get the video out" as
you desire, because it (an NTSC version of the video) isn't there. If
(as I suspect) you want an NTSC version of the video in order to edit
and/or display it on your NTSC equipment, then you have several
choices:

1. Take the PAL tapes to a standards conversion service (WalMart does
this in some parts of the US...other, more nuianced businesses do it
also). You get a Hi8, VHS, DVD, etc. copy of the originals encoded in
NTSC. How much you spend per minute will determine the quality of the
results. Law of physics: The copy will not contain all the information
comprising the original.

2. Invest in, borrow, or rent a "standards converting" VCR. Never
seen a Hi8 animal like this...always been VHS (Panasonic WV-1, Samsung
World-Wide-Video). Find a PAL Hi8 machine that will run on the mains
power in your home...dub to the standards converting VCR.

3. Find a PAL Hi8 VCR; use it to play the tapes into your
computer....Google S/W capable of converting PAL to NTSC (hint: none of
it is free...not much of it works very well).

4. Go back to Europe: Use an NTSC camcorder.

There may be more options...I'm open to suggestions. But it is a
pretty good bet this is it.

Good luck.