VHS NTSC capture is flickering and lacks colour

[glen johnson]

For the past few months I've been using OBS software along with an August VGB 300 AV to USB digital convertor. I've gone through 260 VHS tapes in the Australian PAL format along with more than a dozen camcorder tapes. They all came out good quality as MKV conversions. Then I tried to convert some NTSC format tapes. I've used two different VCR's which play the tapes well on my digital TV. When I try to convert these NTSC tapes to digital : the audio is good but the picture goes black and white and begins flickering. I've tried: switching output from mkv to mp4, lowering the resolution, changing fps rate....all with no improvement. Can anyone help?

 

[SoftballSteve]

I am having the same exact issue. Some tapes work fine and others appear in Black and white with flickering. The suspect tapes playback fine from VCR directly into a TV attached via Red-White-Yellow component connections. See attached screen shot. Help!

 

[FabioDiniz88]

I'm having the exact same problem. My homemade tapes were recorded in PAL-M (Brazilian format) and the only way to record them with an acceptable image was in NTSC, but the image keeps flashing with horizontal colored bars flashing. I'm using an Elgato HD60s in conjunction with an AV to HMI converter upscaler to 720p 180p.

 

[DavidJackson363]

Was this solved?

 

[AaronD]

Sounds to me like an incompatibility between the source and capture device formats. PAL and NTSC are based on the same general ideas, but they're different enough that you can't just plug them together and expect them to work. If the capture device doesn't have an option for the format that you're sending it, you probably need a different capture device.