Exporting HD to AppleTV

Hi all,
I have a PAL HD camcorder and would like to export from iMovie to my AppleTV at the maximum quality I can. I have read another post and believe for PAL it should be 1280 x 720. Unfortunately the AppleTV preset it set at the NTSC max of 960 x 540. Could someone tell me what manual export settings I should use to create a 1280 x 720 @ 25fps movie that will play on the AppleTV? Below is the post I am referring too.
Thanks
Steve
The tv will not however play these files and they will need further reduction in resolution and data rate. What these reductions are depends on whether you are using PAL or NTSC, for PAL you can export to 1280 x 720 @ 25 fps and a datarate of 5 Mbps, NTSC will be 960 x 540 @ 30 fps and a datarate of 5 Mbps. If you are using imovies tv preset, PAL will be exported also at 960 x 540, you'll need to use the manual settings to achieve 1280 x 720.

Unfortunately the AppleTV preset it set at the NTSC max of 960 x 540. Could someone tell me what manual export settings I should use to create a 1280 x 720 @ 25fps movie that will play on the AppleTV?
I personally would probably do my editing in iMovie HD. When done with the project, I would simply open the project shared "timeline" reference file in MPEG Streamclips and select the "Export to MPEG-4 > iTunes > TV 1280x720 (HD)" option. Since your frame rate is already 25 fps, I would then simply turn on the motion adaptive deinterlacer and run a 30-second test to see what the output looks like.

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