Thanks for the response. What I ended up doing is using Studio 10 instead of v9. v10 has the option to force NTSC or PAL when starting a project. The output is a little jittery, but my father seems to be fine with it. Personally, it would bother me if it were my camcorder and footage, but i'm a lot pickier than he is when it comes to this type of thing. Sorry to hijack the thread, I knew I didn't have the same exact problem, but I didn't want to clutter the boards with a thread discussing something so similar. Maybe I should have..