Create movie in PAL format

Hi, Just getting in to using iMovieHD (v6.0.3) to create DVD slideshows from my still photos. When I create a new movie and select 'Video Format' I don't get the options for DV-PAL nor DV Widescreen PAL. All my movies come out as NTSC.
How can I set the movie to PAL at creation time rather thanconvert on export to QuickTime?
Thanks
Steve
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Hi Sneal and welcome!
The choice between starting the project in PAL or NTSC is in fact done in iMovie's Preferences.
Confusingly, you only see a choice there between 29.95 fps and 25 fps. This decodes as:
25 fps = PAL
29.95 fps = NTSC.
Once you select 25 fps iMovie will default to that format until you change it.

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I'm new to MACs and have just tried making a DVD of my mother-in-law's 70th birthday party. (You have to look after the mother-in-law). When I created the project in iMovie it doesn't allow me to create it in PAL format, it just defaults to NTSC. PAL is not even listed in the video format (I was importing video clips previously saved on the mac). When I share it with iDVD as soon as I try to burn to a DVD it tells me there's a TV Standard conflict. How do I create a new project in PAL format?

Ponder
Welcome to "Discussions".
Have you looked at your iMovie PREFERENCES ?
I work in the PAL format. I can tell you that in iMovie 4, you have a choice in "preferences" between PAL or NTSC.
If you have inadvertently created a Movie in NTSC, you won't be able to convert it to PAL in iMovie.
One thing you may have to watch is that when you create a "new project", iMovie may default to NTSC. In that case, you have to go to PREFERENCES, change "new project settings are" to PAL... close the iMovie project and open it again, and double check that the format is PAL. That is my experience with it.
I hope this will help and that I am adressing your concern correctly. I have been playing with iMovie for a couple of years now and am still "learning" and discovering. I think it's a fantastic tool. The first thing I did was to print the sections of the "HELP" pages I was interested in and studied them ... one at a time! There is a lot to absorb ! Incidently, I am not an expert in these matters !!!
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PAL format on quick time

A newbie question. I just got a DVD from France and is in PAL format, I am trying to play it on my laptop and the DVD is getting rejected (without being able to play it). I thought that it does not matter if it is PAL or NTSC the computers can play either format. Is that correct? if not how do I play the French movie in PAL format?
Thank you ?

They can. You are up against the Region Setting.
As you are in the USA your Superdrive is set for Region 1, Europe is Region 2 and so on.
The firmware in the Mac's Superdrive will allow that setting to be changed up to five times, after which it is set in stone for eternity.
What your Mac should have asked you is 'This DVD is for Region 2, do you wish to change region?' or words to that effect.
It would be safer for you to view that DVD in a stand-alone DVD player, assuming that yours can play PAL as well as NTSC DVDs. DVD players sold in Europe nearly always play both, but apparently that may not be the case in the US.
But DVD players are also affected by this silly Region thing, except that they can be set for 'multi-region' with a simple number code entered with the remote control. These codes are readily available for all DVD players, and you can google for them. I would provide a link but laws are different about this in Europe and the US.
On your Mac you may find VLC Media Player useful:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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I did not know the difference and saved movie files on my kodak digital camera as pal format - it was top of list - i need to capture some stills as single photos from those files. I have switched to NTSC format for future and will want to capture stills from movies in that format also
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Even the free version of QT Player allows you to "copy" frames. These could be "pasted" into a new blank using any image editing software.
What ever frame is showing when you stop playback will be the one copied. More control by using the right left arrow keys.
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I have a dvd of my Vegas holiday that is in PAL format and I have no idea how to get it onto i move. I am a newbie to Apple so laymans terms would be helpful to let me know what to do.
Cheers Newbie

Perfectly reasonable request! We all start out knowing nothing, then hope to learn a little every day!
So, let's start by why you have to convert: a DVD is in a compresed format called mpeg2, which is standard across all DVDs. This is what is known as a 'final delivery format' and is not suitable for editing. Because is is compressed, a 4.7GB DVD can hold a two hour movie (dual layer DVDs twice that), whereas the DV stream from a video camera, which runs at about 13GB per hour, is not compressed and IS intended for editing.
In other words you have to 'reverse engineer' the DVD back to an uncompressed format in ordfer to edit it. There is a penalty for doing this in terms of slight quality loss, but it is one you can live with.
When you have your DVD as an icon on your desktop, double-click it, and it will open to reveal a TS-Folder containing a number of various files, some called VOB. These are the constituent parts of any video DVD.
When you have downloaded and installed mpegStreamclip, and purchased and installed the Apple mpeg2 plugin, open mpegStreamclip and drag the entire TS Folder into its window. Then using the various menus available to you (just explore them and you will get the hang of it) ask it to convert to DV.
That DV file, which will be many times larger than the original TS Folder, and which can a while to create (be patient - make coffee or prune the roses!) is what you can now import into iMovie for editing etc.
When you have finished doing that, you then have to turn the project back into a DVD.
I don't know what version of iMovie you have, but this should help:
iMovie 9 tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
and also this:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html
A good guide to iDVD 7 can be found here:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/idvd_07_stone.html
Please feel free to post back if you have more questions!

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Yes. A couple of ways that might work.
First Way
What you need to do is load one of your hd clips in the viewer and edit into a new HD sequence. Does it display correctionly?
OK, select the clip in the hd timeline and copy (command-c). Now go to the HD sequence with the material that's distorted. Select all (command-a) and paste attributes (option-v) and choose basic motion and distort. That should maek things work. What won't work is anything that you've adjusted as far as basic motion or distort in your PAL sequence. That I'm pretty sure you'll have to redo.
Second Way.
Choose your original PAL sequence and do a Media Manage changing the sequence preset to the appropriate HD paramenters with the media offline. You then should be able to reconnect these clips with your original HD media.

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3. Still quite easy but takes more time: Export the iMovie to DV tape, and then re-import using One-Step DVD.
Disadvantage: One-Step DVD creation has been known to be not 100% reliable.
4. (My preferred method) Easy enough but needs 3rd party software: Roxio Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just drag the iMovie project to the Toast Window and click burn. Disadvantage: you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software. In Toast, you just drop the iMovie project on the Window and click Burn.
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• create a disc image of your iDVD project, then double-click to mount it.
• Extract the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to a location of your choice. select the VIDEO_TS folder and hit Cmd + I to open the Inspector window
• Set permissions to "read & write" and include all enclosed items; Ignore the warning.
• Open the VIDEO_TS folder with myDVDedit. You'll find all items enclosed in your DVD in the left hand panel.
• Select the menu (usually named VTS Menu) and delete it
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http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
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Google translation:
I created a DVD with. dvdproj but now I can not convert it. mov or other formats from sites like youtube
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