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Potential issues with US camcorder

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I'm planning on getting a new camcorder when I visit the US next week, will there be any compatability issues with NTSC or PAL?
I'm guessing that once it goes into imovie or FCE it doesn't make a difference where the DVD is played? Or am I wrong?

I have checked on the Apple site and the camera is compatable.

I hope to get the Sony DCR-SR82 and a Black Macbook.

Thanks in advance
 
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I don't think there will be any issues. I say this because I've bought PAL DVD's and ripped them, then re-encoded them at 29.97 to play on my NTSC DVD player.

The computer will play whatever, and you re-encode using whatever frame rate you want.

Best,

Brian
 

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