I recorded/copied an NTSC tape with a Haupaugge 1300 tuner/video card, and but the resulting burn to a DVD didn't have any proper colour. I can't recall what the copy option were. I've since got a more modern USB 'video grabber' (one which actually seems to work properly - at least with PAL), and I'll try to find time to see what success I have with that.
You should be able to record it to digital and then put that back onto tape. There is a lot of software that will convert the digital and a lot of digitizers that do NTSC and PAL. Its expensive though as the digitizers cost about £10.
I'm pretty sure that a few years ago, I managed to convert some 'normal' off-air hard disk PAL recordings to NTSC, using Nero (Version 6, which came free with a DVD read/write drive).
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etc. I recall that the conversion took ages. Although the results were watchable, the pictures were sometimes a little jerky. Maybe I'd be more successful if I tried it today.
Using my fairly recently acquired Video-2-PC USB 'grabber'
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I've been able to copy a couple of NTSC tapes to MPEG-2 and to burn them (directly) to DVD. This time I was able to get colour (which is something I couldn't seem to do with my elderly Hauppauge video card).
With the Arcsoft software provided, you have to select what the format of the input video is. In this case, as the tapes were being played back on a UK VCR, 'NTSC-4.43'. [There are other options, such as tweaking the incoming colour, contrast and sharpness of the video (although, as you can't see what the effects are until after you've captured the video, it is essentially trial and error.]
Once you've captured the video, you can edit it (deleting various bits), and then you can produce an MPEG-2 file, and/or burn it (as either 'standard' 720x576 50Hz PAL or 720x480 29.97Hz NTSC) it to a DVD.
As I have a (very cheap) disk player which can output either PAL, naive NTSC or NTSC-4.43, and a TV which allows you to select AUTO, PAL, NTSC or NTSC-4.43, I've checked that the NTSC DVD that I produced is real NTSC (and not some weird mixture).
On a computer, the quality of the resulting mpg video files look pretty good. On a TV set, quality of the DVD is, well, reasonable (in either the original NTSC or when converted to PAL). Maybe some of the fast-moving things are a bit jerky, but in general, the disk is fairly watchable (no worse than when copying ordinary PAL video tapes).
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