Create NTSC DVD with PAL .avi?

I have a PAL mini DV tape that I had transferred over as a PAL AVI file. When I import the file in imove and export a .MOV it doesn't play on my Apple TV? Do I need to convert the file to NTSC before importing to iMovie or is there a way for iMovie to do it? Thanks!

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I have a PAL VHS tape that I have just captured in AVI format using a Canopus ADVC-55 bridge. The settings I used in PE10 were DV PAL (as I am in Australia). I am now going to produce a DVD of the footage for use in Australia, but I also need to send a copy to my cousin in the USA, where they use NTSC. The whole PAL/NTSC process confuses me somewhat and I would appreciate some guidance.
1. If I create a PAL DVD for viewing here, is it right that it won't play in a DVD player in the USA? If it won't, can I create a DVD with output settings NTSC even though the input setting was PAL?
2. If I don't create a playable DVD as output, but instead just create an MPEG file and burn the MPEG file to a DVD to be read on a PC, will it read on a PC in the USA?
3. Should I recapture the footage, setting the ADVC-55 to NTSC (rather than PAL), and the project settings to DV NTSC? I have tried this and it seems to work, much to my surprise, as I thought the VHS tape itself was in PAL format and hence would not capture with NTSC settings.

Although most PAL DVD players will play NTSC video -- you are correct that virtually no US NTSC DVD players can play PAL video. And that's true whether you burn a DVD file or an MPEG to a disc. It's a different aspect ratio, resolution and frame rate.
But you can use Share/Computer/AVI with the NTSC DV preset to output an NTSC DV file of your project. Then you can start up an NTSC DV project, load that file into it and burn an NTSC DVD from that.
It won't be perfect. But the program does to a pretty good job of interpretting your video from one format to another.

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I just finished editing a dvd on imovie 4/ idvd. I would like to send a copy of this dvd to a friend in Brazil. Can anyone recommend how I transfer this ntsc dvd to pal m for brazil?
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As QuickTimeKirk points out, just send your DVD. I have never seen a PAL DVD player that doesn't play NTSC discs. And just add a TV that isn't older than 10-15 years and you are OK.
The opposite is harder: Only the latest NTSC DVD players and TVs can play PAL discs.
For commercial ("Hollywood") discs you must also consider region codes, but that isn't an issue for discs you create yourself.

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I cannot manage to make NTSC DVD with ADOBE ENCORE.
It all went fine with the PAL version. Then I exported mpeg NTSC from the editing programme, which I added to a ENCORE NTSC new file, I added Wav audio files (which is requiered for NTSC in addition to mpeg), and add subtitles in Uff-8. ENCORE first transcodes the audio files, and then "general error" (errore generale in italian). I do not know what is wrong.
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Drop the MPEG Audio.
It's an optional format in NTSC (and in PAL these days) and not allowed as Audio Stream #1.
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//lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
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Encore won't let me edit the quality settings to change from NTSC to PAL. These settings are greyed out. I take it they are dictated by the assets.
They are dictated by your selections when you created the project. And NTSC vs PAL are not settings that can be changed in the project settings once created.
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>Maybe worth a feature request for CS5?
God in heaven - NO!
As Joe just pointed out, these are 2 completely different TV standards, running on different frame rates at different resolutions.
The results of attempting this "on the fly" with menus etc would very closely resemble a dogs dinner.
>I would therefore guess that you are stuck with copying the menus and other such assets into a new Encore project for each output format.
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