Video in Garageband - PAL or NTSC?

This is very annoying! My Canon HF100 is an NTSC model, so I imported into iMovie as NTSC, and my iDVD project was NTSC, all of which was designed to prevent the judder caused by dropping frames...
But it still happened! Really frustrating, as everything I did was meant to avoid this. And then I thought through the process and arrived at Garageband, which for some mad reason one has to use in order to put in chapters.
Did Garageband convert my videos to PAL, in which case iDVD would have converted them back again? I can't see how to switch from PAL to NTSC in Garageband preferences.

So does it look fine when you preview the video in iDVD? I don't think PAL and NTSC are the problem these are both international standards for Televisions, Garageband could be the problem but it would show up in iDVD.

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