Originally posted by: norinradd
Interesting rnranimal, may I enquire as to which DV capture device/card you used?

I have used a ADVC 300 with the french pal discs and have been fairly pleased with the test output, when I'm back in work on thursday(I don't have the connection for this at home) I will try to upload the sample mpeg so everyone can provide feedback if they wish.

I have the ADVC-50. The reason you aren't seeing the stair-step issue is that PAL DV is 4:2:0 color space, which is the same as the DVD standard (for PAL & NTSC). NTSC DV is 4:1:1 and that causes the vertical banding seen in the screencaps. I was only speaking of NTSC when I said DV wasn't good enough to capture LD in. Lossless capture is, of course, still gonna be best, but you should be fine with capturing in PAL DV. No issues with it that I know of, but I haven't captured anything higher quality than S-VHS dubs in PAL.