NTSC - PAL - HELP

I live in central Europe but used to live in the US. I have analog video footage shot in the US on NTSC VHS cassette.
I want to send a DVD of this footage to Grandparents in UK. I have sucessfully imported into iMovie 6 using my (US) camcorder as a pass-thru converter from my multi-system (analog) VCR.
The DVD ends up being NTSC which I suspect they will not be able to watch in the UK.
I imported to iMovie then exported to iDVD.
Can anybody advise the best way to go...

LargeAL: Of course depending on the current size you may want to compress it.
sorry to say, Al, but that is nonsense...
the iLife suite uses internal the same codec as tape - dv.
so, stay with dv, in iM and esp. for converting into another viddeo standard and esp. for usage in iDVD otherwise you will realize a dramtaic loss of quality....
any codecs as mpgs are for playback only, are lossy and not meant for usage in iDVD....
video IS huge files. full stop.

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second:
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I'm fairly new to the iMovie package, i had used it about two years ago while editing a movie for a college class and everything was set-up for us.
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dang itpowda, you killing me.. haha jk!
anyway, ok i see where you can be confused. hopefully this can answer yoru questions.
ok in the NTSC world, if you are creating a graphic file for exampe for TV, then you would create the file with a square pixel (PAR = 1.0 in this case) and your frame size will be 720x540 only because if you create it using the rectagular NTSC pixel, your image will look sueezed and you would have to resize the graphic anyway for TV because remember, you would be creating it on a computer monitor that has a PAR of 1.0 natively, although your DAR is the same, the PAR is not. now, when you have video in D1 NTSC, you would have a rectangular pixel (PAR = 0.9 in this case) and a frame size of 720x486.
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now, you might be wondering, HOW N THE HECK DID HE GET THOSE NUMBERS!
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we know we want to keep the width the same, since we are creating a image file for the PAL video.
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i know the DAR of my input (from 4:3 video), i know the PAR of my ouput (from a 1:1 CG file) and i have my height from video (576). so the unknown variable in this case is the width.
so it would look something like this:
width = 576 * (4/3) / (1/1)
ok, we know that we want to convert the ratio of 4:3 and 1:1 into decimals (makes it easier to work with mathmatically).
when we do this, we get:
w = 576 * 1.333 / 1
we know that when you divide a number by one, you get the same value back, so for simplicity sake, lets take the sole 1 out, since it doesnt matter because 1.333 wont change in value:
w = 576 * 1.333 = 676.808 or when you round up to the nearest whole number, you get w = 678!
as long as you have the 3 of the 4 possible variables for the above formual, you can mathmatically get the variable you need.
i am exhausted, i need a beer!
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So I am hoping to import some footage and edit it in FCE from mini dv tapes but they were bought and recorded on with cameras in Canada. They are HDV. I have a Pal Sony Handycam HDR-HC1E which is HDV too. When I try to watch the tapes in the camera there is just a blue screen except for when I fast forward or rewind at which point the image plays.
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