Created in NTSC, Need in PAL - HELP!

Hello,
I'm fairly new to the iMovie package, i had used it about two years ago while editing a movie for a college class and everything was set-up for us.
Anyway, i spent all day yesterday editing a project for my univeristy course. The problem is, when i come to "share" the project in iDVD it says that it's an incorrect format to burn as the discs are PAL... do i want to continues (i did).
The project burned to a DVD disc, and works fine in my home dvd player (but i think that's because it's multiregion). is there anyway to make sure it has burned to Pal and works on all dvds that aren't multiregion?
Thanks for any help

Hello HelixOmnimedia,
in your workflow (iMovie/iDVD), what is PAL and what is NTSC? Is the iMovie project NTSC and you want to burn a PAL DVD?
If so, that is possible in iDVD (and from what I read you have done so). You'll find the setting for the TV standard in iDVD's preferences: "New projects are ...". Note that this setting takes place only for new projects. A project's setting can be verified by choosing Project > Show Project Info from the menu.
Note: the conversion done by iDVD doesn't produce the best quality. For better results you might want to have a look at JES Deinterlacer:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeschot/home.html
The project burned to a DVD disc, and works fine in my home dvd player (but i think that's because it's multiregion). is there anyway to make sure it has burned to Pal and works on all dvds that aren't multiregion?
Do not confuse TV standard with region codes. iDVD creates DVD's that are enabled for all 6 regions, so there's no problem with that. Most newer DVD players in PAL - land will play NTSC discs, but not all of them and there might be problems, such as the DVD being shown in black & white.
hope this helps
mish

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