Capturing a Long Play Tape

Hi all,
Im having a real problem capturing this tape. Basically a friend was over from the states with her camera and recored a wedding on mini dv NTSC Long Play mode. She has left me the tape so I can edit it for her and put onto DVD. I have tried to capture it using FCP and even iMovie but I cant get anything. When I play the tape back locally on a camera it views fine. Can anyone tell me why FCP cannot recognise the incoming video? How can I get around this Long play problem?
Many thanks
PS all regular tapes capture fine as normal.

It's because the United States video standard, NTSC(Never Twice the Same Color), is incompatible with the limey video standard known as PAL. Different frame rate, horizontal line resolution. color framing, etc. Yeah it's a grotty situation she left you with but don't all women do that? Now you have to find someone with an NTSC camera or find someone who has a Sony DSR 1500 that has a PAL/NTSC switch. Once you get that onto your media drive(you do have a separate media drive don't you?) taken care of remember to set your FCP to DV/DVC NTSC. Your frame rate should be 29.97 fps. Stay in NTSC as you edit and export to DVD Studio and keep that in NTSC too. No need to do any other conversion, otherwise you'll undo to your friend what she undid to you.
Remember the words of an old Czech hacker... Always must be using brain.

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