Capturing NTSC into FCE with a PAL-Camcorder?

Hi. I have mini-dv cassettes with videos in ntsc format.
Is it possible to capture these videos using my PAL mini-dv camcorder via firewire to fce hd3.5?
It sounds weird bec generally you cant use a PAL mini-dv camcorder to play a mini-dv in NTSC format. I went to a video store to ask for an advice and I was told that it didnt matter if I used a PAL mini-dv camcorder to capture an NTSC format via firewire which is digital. All I need is to put the right format setting in the editing software. But I got confused when I got another advice from another video store where I was told that both the camcorder and the edit software should be able to handle the NTSC format. I know fce hd3.5 can handle both NTSC and PAL format in mini-dv.
I hope you can help me solve my problem. Thanks in advance.

Thanks Al for giving your thought on this.
As you suggested, I need a video standard converstion system? The video standard will stay as NTSC in the meantime. I only see the use of this standard conversion system when I need to edit both PAL and NTSC videos at thesame time, where I need to convert either one of the video standards into the other one so that as you said fce knows what type of footage it will deal with.
This leads me to think that the only way I can capture my NTSC videos into fce hd3.5 is to use an NTSC camcorder as well. That's exactly my problem bec in Germany they only sell PAL minidv cams unless you want to get Sony HVR-Z1U which is able to handle both NTSC and PAL system. That's expensive for me.
Am I making sense here???

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