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Question

NTSC videos to PAL

Jul 25, 2016 2:23AM PDT

Like many others I suspect, we have stacks of videos of the grandchildren when they were young that we now need to convert to a different format to preserve our treasured memories.

These videos were taken when we lived in the USA and we now live in England. We brought a NTSC video player with us and we want to play them back on the computer. We are not computer savvy and we don't know where to start! We have windows 10.

Questions:

1) How do we go about playing NTSC videos on our desk top computer with a Windows 10 OS?

2) How can we convert them to PAL DVDs?

3) How can we make this conversion while still retaining as much picture integrity as possible?

Thank you in advance (see my screen name) Happy

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Answer
1. I play them with VLC player. Works here.
Jul 25, 2016 2:45AM PDT

2. You can google that question. My advice is to have it done in most cases. I find folk get upset over the days it takes.
3. No. Conversion is going to lose a little. It's usually not enough to notice but the conversion is from one set of lines on a screen to another so the effects there are unavoidable.

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Reading your post again.
Jul 25, 2016 2:46AM PDT

Either buy the usual "World Player" or have it done. The conversion is not for those that don't want to dive in and there is no one true way to do this.