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Need transfer of PAL DV tape files to DVDRs. How???

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Okay. I'm here in the US. I have a 60 min PAL DV tape. I need to get the DV file(s) off of it and transfered to multiple (probably4 to 5) DVDRs so that I can clean them up, edit them etc. I cannot have them as MPEG2 files. I need them as their true DV format. Does anyone know of a company or individual who does this? Most conversion places I have called only do tape to compliant MPEG DVD conversion.
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So you want the (edited) avi on dvdrs? You won't be able to play it in a standalone dvd player.

I guess you camcorder has a digital connection? Do you have a firewire card in your PC? If not, they are very cheap and it's well woth buying one. It's very easy to capture the DV avi yourself with WinDV.
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I don't have a DV camcorder let alone one that does PAL (I live in the US). I'm not going to buy a PAL camcorder to transfer one tape. I don't care about the files being DVD compliant because I want the files in DV format for editing/cleanup purposes. And I undersand that a 60 min DV tape will probably return 4 to 5 DVDRs worth of AVI (DV) files.
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OK. I thought because you have a PAL DV tape you probably filmed it yourself with a PAL camcorder.

PAL DV is about 13 GB per hour.
Does it make a difference if you have type 1 or type 2 avi?
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Type 1 or 2 shouldn't make a difference.

The tape was mailed to me from a friend in France. That's why it is PAL. When all is done I will author the content to a compliant PAL DVD. But I want to do some cleanup and color correction, etc before I convert to MPEG. I have some of the material on a MPEG DVD already but obviously I cannot to that stuff to the files since they have already been converted to mpeg. So I asked my friend to capture his original VHS tape to a DV medium. He doesn't have the PC resources otherwise I would have had him give me the files on DVD. This was my only way to get the stuff from him in DV format.
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I walked into a BestBuy at lunch with my PAL DV tape and put it into a Sony DCR-HC26 camcorder and it played. So some NTSC DV cams will play a PAL tape. This model retailed for $280.