Clip scrambles when applying titles then imove crashes

Question

Hi,
This is still pretty new to me, i have been a IBM platform man for ten years, so it's all a bit foreign to me. So please be gentle!
I have imported movie from camera...no probs, i can trim clips, add sound ect.
But when i try to title or add a transition the clip just scrambles vid and audio, i tried to use preview buton but imove just quit.
I then restarted imove and tried to add the title to the begining of the timeline (thinking mayby it needed to be rendered first....there's that PC thinking again)
But same affect and crash.
My camera is a sony TRV110e D8 camera, the project is created as a DV ntsc, The camera is set to NTSC PB on pal tv.
Can someone please help.

Answer 1

camera menu under NTSC PB i switched it from on pal TV to NTSC 4.3 re-captured video and all is good.
Glad to hear that.
Now, that you mention this, I took a peek at my Sony TRV320E VCR menus, and sure enough, there is a setting VTR SET/NTSC PB/ON PAL TV or NTSC 4.43. My setting has always been "ON PAL TV".
The TRV320E (PAL) manual says this about the NTSC PB setting:
"ON PAL TV: To playback a tape recorded on your camcorder on a PAL system."
"NTSC 4.43: To playback a tape recorded in the NTSC colour system on a TV with the NTSC 4.43 mode."
Googling around indicated that NTSC 4.43 is a variation of NTSC where the signal is encoded using the PAL subcarrier frequency and chroma modulation. Also known as PAL60. Or:
A variation of NTSC-M where a 525/59.94 NTSC signal is encoded using the PAL subcarrier frequency and chroma modulation. It is NOT PAL, nor is it encoded as PAL, but rather it is NTSC color just using PAL's subcarrier frequency. Most (but not all) multi-system Vcr's will support this mode, but only multi-standard monitors are capable of reproducing it."
Also:
If you have a DV cassette recorded at 30 p/s (from a NTSC camcorder...), and play it on a PAL TRV-900, that machine will output a non-standard signal at 30 p/s with either NTSC 4.43 color encoding or PAL color encoding (choice in the menus). Most TV will play it fine, but VCRs won't record it. From that tape, it will also output a standard NTSC DV stream via firewire.
Or vice versa:
If you have a DV cassette recorded at 25 p/s (from a PAL camcorder...), and play it on a US TRV-900, that machine will output a non-standard signal at 25 p/s with NTSC 3.58 color encoding. Most TV will play it fine, but VCRs won't record it. From that tape, it will also output a standard PAL DV stream via firewire.
So was your problem tape the "wrong" video standard that iMovie could not properly digest?? ...and feeding iMovie the camcorder's native standard fixed this?