Compressor & Dvd Studio Pro not loving me! pls help.

Hi, so ive got a bunch of QT's that i want to put on a dvd. so i use compressor to make them mpeg2 (m2v) using the "DVD fastest encode 90 mins" (or the others) option. it does the work, but as soon as i drop them into DVD Studio Pro, it tells me that they are NTSC assets and thus wont read. How do i stop compressor from making them NTSC, and why the **** would it do so?
I never made them NTSC, but would like them to be PAL.
Any help would be seriously appreciated.
shot.

yeah thanks Luca.
i imagine that will work, it seems its a bit of a weird one. it only seems to go bad when im passing the converted files onto another mac with dvd studio pro. thanks for the help tho, ill let you know if i get sorted
cheers

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Hi all.
I have a Compressor/DVD studio pro question.
I have a compressor setting that is just the standard DVD MPEG 2 best quality 120 minutes. I have only changed the video setting to Pal as I am in Australia.
When I go to import the rendered product into DVD Studio Pro I get an error message saying "incorrect format". I even tried importing the rendered file into Toast Titanium and I get the same message from that program.
Can anyone help with this problem?

In DVD SP you have to set the format, NTSC or PAL first. Then import the clip. If there is already footage from one format already in the project you cannot flip it to the other. You have to remove the footage first. Then try flipping to PAL. Sometimes it doesn't work. Generally only video footage is ID'ed as PAL or NTSC. Audio just has frequency.

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    Height: 480
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I'm a little confused on the "what plays what" part, but all that really matters is what DVDSP sees/plays.
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I figured I post here rather than the DVD Studio Pro forum; I've posted on Creative Cow as well but haven't gotten any responses yet.
Before I mention my problem, I'd like to mention that I've tried several types of compression methods and bitrates and unfortunately, my disk still freezes in my player, generally around the same area.
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