Thanks to all respondents to my request for help particularly Rod at ITQ Mt. Hawthorn who provided the clue that solved the problem. The route cause of the situation was that iMovie was in NTSC mode and there was no preference or other means of switching it to PAL. The solution was as simple as setting the VCR and ADVC-100 up and ON then starting iMovie, when it fired up it immediately switched to PAL-- I, of course, started with iMovie running, even AppleCare failed to suggest this and are referring the matter to their experts, it will be interesting to see how long it takes for them to get back to me. As for the ADVC-100 their technician said that if you put Dip 1 to "OFF" NTSC is "OFF" however, I found that Dips' 1 and 6 should be in the "ON" position and the remainder "OFF".
I highly recommend 'iMovie, The Missing Manual' by David Pogue. It does include tips like turning on your video before running iTunes (although in the past I've sometimes found i have to actually open a PAL project to get iTunes to talk PAL properly.)
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/imoviemm2/> Have fun, Shay -- =========================== Shay Telfer ================================ Perth, Western Australia Technomancer There *is* a spoon! Opinions for hire [POQ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord
