FCP7 PAL still frame duration bug?

While attempting to troubleshoot a thread here, I've just noticed that my still duration setting seems to have a bug whereby my imports are created using NTSC framerates so if I set it to 12 seconds (300 frames in PAL) I get 10 seconds and so on.
Freezes created from the canvas or viewer behave as they should, this is only affecting imports.
I don't remember ever seeing this behaviour with previous versions, but perhaps I'm just being forgetful.

Thanks Ian. Rather remiss of me not to have noticed it before! In my (weak) defense I've never fiddled with that setting before, so had no reason to notice the 'wrongness'. I just always assumed that the setting only pertained to internally created stills, imported ones being fixed at a ten second in-out within a 2 minute and.. 5 second clip.. um yeah. Should really have picked up on that weird duration.

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