Imovie video NTSC to PAL from VHS captures only in Black & White, HELP!

I'm trying to capture video via a Pinnacle Moviebox to Imovie. PAL VHS through the box is fine, no problem. As soon as I switch to NTSC setting and run an NTSC VHS tape the picture reverts to Black and White. Changed the cable, changed the VHS player, talked to Pinnacle, no advice offered. I am getting deperate! Need to transfer tapes urgently for a show-reel. All advice gratefully accepted.

Check your settings and cables: feeding composite video through a s-video cable yields B&W image.
So set the (S)VHS deck to either composite-out/s-video-out and use a corresponding composite/s-video cable and feed that into composite-in/s-video-in.
Also remember that a SCART connector can use either composite or s-video.
...there are quite many permutations that can go wrong there!
Also older PAL TVs play NTSC as B&W.

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