IDVD question

I've got a DVD I'm hoping to send to people on both PAL and NTSC versions.
My question is, how do I find out what region setting hte DVD is going to be set to.
I'm a recent switcher from PC, and in the PC program I used, it let me select the region.
Any ideas?

Hi Michael,
Welcome to the Discussion.
To set your new iDVD project format: see Setting the video format for a new project. Please note that your movie assets that you import into iDVD must also match the iDVD format, i.e. NTSC is 720x480 29.97fps, PAL is 720x576 25fps.

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