[MacDV] NTSC switches to PAL

[Mark Des Cotes]

Hi all,

My son has a presentation to make  at school and needed a couple of  
minutes of video from one of the TV shows he watches. I figured out  
how to download the episode he needed. (I know it's not right but I'm  
not about to purchase an entire season on DVD just to have two  
minutes of video. And I've already checked Blockbuster and they don't  
have it.) I thought the easiest thing was to just prepare a DVD-Video  
disk in Roxio Toast, Add the video and crop it down to just the  
couple of minutes he needs. That part was simple enough, but when  
click to burn the disk a message pops up that it's changing the  
format from NTSC to PAL and I don't have a choice in the matter. I  
have no idea if the DVD players at his school will play a PAL disk.  
Why would it do this? The downloaded file has a long extension of  
".dvdrip.xvid-sfm.avi". I'm not all that familiar with iMovie or  
iDVD, can I use either of them to somehow convert the file so I can  
burn a NTSC disk?

Mark