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Capturing both PAL & NTSC Analogue Video . . . help!
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Hi.
I'm hunting for a magic box to hook up to my Mac that will let me rip both NTSC and PAL videos so I can then burn DVDs of them.
Anyone know of such a wonder of science?
(I'm from a PAL country but am now living in a NTSC country and I want to get rid of my stack of PAL videos . . . )
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this is what you need.
it's constantly rated as the top A/D converter on the market.
all you do is connect it up with firewire and use a normal firewire-capturing program (imovie, final cut, etc). you can then encode to dvd.
you will need to buy a PAL VCR to play back your PAL material, though. that is, unless you still have one. 
-Mark
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in case of accidental ingestion, consult a mortician.
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Thanks Mark E. The ADVC100 certainly looks like a sweet unit, maybe a little overkill though (fairly expensive and a bit bulky).
In my stumbling across the net I came across the cheap XLR8 InterView USB cable.
Any one out their using it?
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bulky? not really. the unit itself is just slightly bigger than 2 CD cases stacked together.
its RRP is $300, but you can pick one up for $230-40 or so. check ebay.
USB for any sort of video capture is a bad idea. there just isn't the bandwidth for it.
seriously.. do a search around this forum. the ADVC-100 has been mentioned countless times as being the best item for this type of work.
and if you aren't sure, you can always buy one, try it out, and sell it again or return it. at the most, if you sell it, you won't lose more than $20 or $30.
sorry if i seem like i'm ranting here.. but, really, there is no better product.
-Mark
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I agree. I used the InterView when it was sold by Belkin as "VideoBus", and the quality was absolute crap. Then I got a firewire box from "Dazzle", and the difference was night and day (but eventually the left audio input broke). Now I use the Televio (now sold as "AlchemyTV") card, which is only a little more money than the usb crap and it's better quality than the Dazzle product. If you have a PCI slot to spare, this is by far the best solution IMO. If you insist on USB, make sure to look for an EyeTV-like product that uses hardware mpeg compression before the USB step.
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We just got two advc-100 boxes for the studio I work at. I played with one in Final Cut 4.1.1 last night. Wow... they're good.
My ONLY complaint: the blue input select status LED on the front is really really bright.
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