DV-PAL

I am in the US and using a JVC digital video camera and a Fuji FinePix digital camera. For the past several years every iMovie I've created using these 2 cameras has automatically been in DV-NTSC format. So why do I suddenly have a movie on iMovie that's in DV-PAL format? Is it something I accidently changed? Is there a way to go back to DV-NTSC?

Hi
In iMovie Pref You can set
• 25 fps = PAL
• 29.97 fps = NTSC (30fps to some)
Importing/Capturing 25fps into a NTSC project or the other way around works BUT THE RESULT IS BAD ! !
To do this as good as possibly
• Import into a Project set as Recorded
• Export as a full Quality QuickTime .mov
• Import this into JES_Deinterlacer (free on internet)
• Convert to the other standard
• Import this into a NEW iMovie project set accordingly.
This will give a very Good Result - To get even better one has to use Pro Equipment
to an astronomical cost - and nearly no quality gain. (Very subtile)
BTW
• DVD-players in EU - most often playback NTSC (PAL standard)
• DVD-players in US - rarely playback PAL (NTSC standard)
Yours Bengt W

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