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Sony Hi8 (PAL) pass-through to Canon (NTSC) - will this work

Dec 26, 2010 3:30AM PST

I have some old, analog Hi8 tapes which I would like to digitize. I found a used camcorder, Canon MVX460, which supports analog-to-digital conversion.

So, I want to connect my old Sony CCD-TRV67E to the Canon MVX460 and the Canon to my computer through Firewire. Problem is, that my Sony is a PAL camcorder and the Canon is NTSC. Is this important with regard to "pass-through"?

Any advice would be appreciated.

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You must try it.
Dec 26, 2010 3:33AM PST

While it is not supposed to work, why not try?

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Don't have it
Dec 26, 2010 5:10AM PST

I found the Canon on ebay, I don't have it physically...

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Again.
Dec 26, 2010 11:36AM PST

It's not supposed to work. What used to work were the old Hauppauge capture cards. Why? Because we could set them to PAL or NTSC.
Bob