[Patrick Toole]

Thanks again Vince.

The only question that remains for me is why when I was trying capturing the NTSC tapes via firewire the image was much much clearer than with the PAL tapes (PAL tapes had scan lines and odd color). Is the Firewire connection the issue or would it be the player?

[Patrick Toole]

Hey Vince, thanks so much for the speedy reply, exactly the advice I needed.

Am I to understand that if I use a capture card and go component out into it, that I will be able to capture the PAL tapes at their fullest resolution with my Sony J-10 Beta player? A European or special deck is not needed to work with PAL? When I was going in via Firewire, the PAL tapes had a significantly more degraded image than the NTSC tapes, with scan lines and what seemed like bad tracking (even after adjusting the tracking.) This makes me think I need a special Beta deck to play these tapes, but it might have just been the DV signal(?) Make sense to you?

-Patrick