Hi. I live in the UK and always have my iMovies in PAL.
I keep one copy on an external hard drive connected to my iMac and one copy I burn to a DVD.
I use Toast 10 Titanium to burn the DVD but for the first time it told me that the iMovie I had created was NTSC and would I like to change it to PAL. I selected PAL and the DVD works fine.
However the copy I have stored on my external hard drive displays the Plex information showing a Video Frame Rate as NTSC 29,979 fps. My previous iMovies are shown in PAL and Videp Frame Rate as 25,000 fps which is what I want.
I haven't changed my Sony camera which records in AVCHD.
I've just bought a new Samsung Smart TV Model UE32J5500AK and I've joined Plex to enable me to be able to watch my Home Movies from my external hard drive, on the Smart TV. I'm new to Plex and so just exploring still.
When I look at the Plex information about the copy of my latest movie, the one which I haven't copied onto DVD, it's telling me that the video frame rate is NTSC and not Pal. This is the file on the external hard disc which was generated by iMovie and I then converted to mp4 using Wondershare Video Converter Ulitmate Version 5.1.2
It seems that the even if the carrier is the same, MP4, the Video Frame Rate can come up as either PAL or NTSC.
I'm new to Plex but it seems from what it tells me that somehow I've managed to create a Home Movie in iMovie in NTSC instead of PAL.
I'm confused and if iMovie doesn't set the video format and my camera hasn't changed, I don't know where the format change has happened.
As a thought, would an output from iMovie default to Quicktime and then have PAL. It's the only difference I can think of.
All help and thoughts welcomed.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), 3.06 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8GB