#Pal ntsc video capture for mac driver#

I was planning on recording it via VirtualDub, and then possibly deinterlacing it.

While I'm at it: the signal seems interlaced.

#Pal ntsc video capture for mac driver#

I found that sometimes the USB device or its driver corrects the colors (that I assume suffer from the NTSC/PAL thing), but I'm not sure whats going on there.

Would I get a big improvement from using a different VHS player? NTSC devices are hard to come by here and probably pretty expensive.

The documentation of the USB device says that a S-Video cable will improve the quality, should I use one?.What I have right now is the following: German (PAL) VHS with the old tapes, connected via SCART->white-red-yellow cables to generic USB digitalization device, connected to the computer. Another issue is that there is a bit of clipping in very bright/dark areas, but I think nothing can be done about that. The colors are slightly dull, but I don't know whether this is a feature of the camera, the old tapes, or any conversion. I am guessing that it converts the video to PAL60 for playback. They play on my PAL VHS device, even in color. I'd say they are in NTSC format, but I've also heard that VHS don't have NTSC or PAL, so I'm not sure. The videos were recorded around 1990, in the USA. I have some old VHS home videos that I'd like to digitise to preserve them, and I'm looking for the 'best' way to do that with my setup.