FCP6 1080i smartrendering workflow to a BDMV-DVD

Using this flowchart ( http://home.arcor.de/spamlos/hdv/hdv01.jpg ) I want to demonstrate my "FCP6 HDV 1080i smartrendering workflow" from logged HDV footage (Sony HC3) to a menu-free 001-BDMV-DVD, perfect playable as a AVCHD-DVD (mpeg2-1080i50 at 25MBit/s) on PS3 and other standalones. You get 40 minutes of finest and only smartrendered HDV material at a DL-DVD disc.
You need the win-freeware tool tsMuxeR Gui and Codeweavers Crossover (37 bugs).
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Greetings
Carsten

Well it must be 24 over 29.97 then because it is working with it. I have been able to create timelines and export quicktime movies, etc. The item properties (in FCE Browser) of the clips definitely say 23.98fps-- as I would expect because I know I had the camera set to 24p. However, the frame rate of the sequences i've been editing on say 29.97. This is without me having made any conscious effort to manipulate any settings for the sequences at the outset-- I didn't even know the sequences had settings for this when i started. I just began dragging and dropping footage out of the browser and it must have automatically set the sequence to 29.97. Who knows what I had the Easy Set up set to when i brought the footage over from my camera two years ago. I knew even less then. Are the settings on Easy Set up critical when bringing the footage onto your computer from your camera? What processes are the Easy set up settings governing?
Even with all of that said, you would recommend burning the DVD as an NTSC? An NTSC in a new PAL DVD player will look better than an NTSC burned as a PAL? I suppose I could send them both versions and see which one looks better.
Thanks for you help Tom.
P.S.
On the true 24p issue, I did find this:
There are many posts out there about the Canon XH A1 not having "true 24p".
I think much of that misinformation out there maybe stemmed from (correct me if I'm wrong):
Canon Frame Mode on the standard DV cams was a "simulation: of the 24 frame look.
The Canon HDV 24p actually records each single frame progressively, but using an interlaced method.

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