I had the same problem. A good trick to get it to work is to START YOUR CAMERA playing the PAL tape before you enter the capture configuration screen. Most software will automatically pick up the PAL and capture your video fine, with no rectangles...



peter wrote:

capture PAL how?
20-Jun-07

I have a PAL miniDV tape and a NTSC sony trv900 camcorder.
The tape plays and displays fine on the build-in LCD screen.
And according to what I found on the web, it also outputs PAL video via
firewire.

However, when I try to capture the video via firewire, I got a video that
looks like it was cut into many little rectangles and scrambled (about 45 x
27 rectangles).

I tried capturing with movie maker, DVIO, virtualdub, scenalyzer, and
premiere pro. All results in this scrambled capture except premiere which
captured nothing at all. Scenalyzer results in the best capture with audio
that is shifted higher in pitch. The other captures don't have sound or stop
capture after a few seconds.

The capture works fine with NTSC tapes.

Is there something I have to do in windowsXP to enable PAL capture? I
noticed all the captured avis are 720 x 480 but should be 720 x 576 for PAL.

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