I live in New Zealand so that says PAL.

Our Fujifilm Finepix camera says NTSC.

Soo, what do I set PD9 to ?

I've had it on Pal for a while, PD9 converting the Fujifilm clips onto the timeline and it's not too bad.

Today however, I reset PD9 to NTSC to match the camera.

And then, without thinking, I went to burn our usual 2 episodes of Dark Skies (45 mins each) and when I came to the Burn section of PD9 it said that my nearly 3 gigs of movies was in fact nearly 6 gigs and that was on my usual HQ quality setting !

Soo, I reset the burn quality to Standard and that brought it down in size to fit on the disc.

But It took a while to figure out what had happened and just out of curiosity I reset NTSC Back to the Pal setting whilst the 2 episodes of Dark Skies were still loaded in PD9 and that brought the total movie size in PD9 down by 3 gigs and that was in High Quality.

Soo, although it sounds like common sense with the pal / ntsc settings I can imagine this would be a frequent error by users with PD9 and disc space ?

Anyway, I've reset PD9 back to PAL but I know the next time we import a clip from our camera PD9 is going to question it. And if I set it back to NTSC then our usual movies are no longer going to fit on a disc in HQ.

Anyone here got a conflict between country setting and camera setting and what do you find works best ?

Stephanie.