Ntsc hi8 to fce1, shot in pal

Has anyone had problems with capturing Hi 8 (SP) video on Final Cut Express? I seem to be able to pull the video up in the capture window but its lke jerky but looks ok on a external switchable monitor, it's a Samsung HI 8 SCL 700 NTSC 8mm, in the menu there is PAL conversion off/or PAL 60.
shot in Pal (i think) in uk
thanks
john

Al.
This is difficult, and will not give you what you want.
In NTSC you have a frame rate of 29.97fps with a completely different vertical resolution - 480 lines against 576 lines.
For film, you also end up with either frame blending, or frame doubling using Premiere or After Effects.
Best option:
www.dvfilm.com - and get DV Film Atlantis. This will take your NTSC video and convert to PAL, but there will be an unavoidable 4% speed increase. To get around this, you will need to extract the audio from the NTSC, and then go into Premiere & import the converted PAL film, and the original Audio & stretch the film to fit the audio.
Alternative is to just live with the speed difference, or cope with the inevitable judder & frame blending.
Menus will need to be redone due to the difference in vertical resolution.
When multiple standards are needed, it's better to start in PAL & convert to NTSC with Atlantis - no speed differences then - and you will also need 2 sets of menus.

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