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Ta3devil
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_ 		22. July 2005 @ 22:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi peaople Ta3devil here in the UK i have just purchased a Camcorder from the US but hadn't realised it had the label NTSC on the front, i have tried playing my other old DV tapes that was recorded on Pal recorders and seems to play back fine. can any problems that i expect to face with the RECORDING of NTSC and PLAYING back ON TV or even copying to DVD, and how can i fix them, i really love the camcorder, but i don't wanna start bying accessories for it if it's no good.
i suppose what i'm asking will i be able to tranfer my NTSC on to mu UK computer edit them and put to DVD as i would do with a normal PAL footage. and will it playback on any DVD player, sorry if i'm babbling on just wanna make sure all the info's there, Please if anyone can help.
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YOBUZZB
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_ 		29. July 2005 @ 22:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The main difference between them is the way the color information is encoded, but they also have different line resolutions and frame rates. When taking a simplified view a NTSC signal has 60 frames per second with 262 lines each, PAL has 50 frames with 312 lines each. It is a bit more complicated in reality, because normal TV broadcast is interlaced, only half of the picture is drawn at once, half of the lines are black and filled in by the next field. To differentiate between them one of the fields is one line longer than the other and a full frame of two fields has 525/625 lines. In fact, there will be a conflict and will be necessary for you to convert all video from NTSC to PAL, unless what you're using to play video from allows you to switch between the two.
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