I would see if the camera will make AVI files in NTSC.
If so, you can then edit them with the freeware VirtualDub.
AVI files would be considerably larger and may limit the
length due to the fat16 cluster size on "most" smaller media cards.
The good news is that they would be stored originally as
a loss-less version that is better to edit...

                                                     Rick Glazier

From: "Peter Shkabara"
>I got a new Sony W7 digital camera and took some short videos with it. My
> video editing software is Pinnacle Studio 9. When I tried to open the MPG
> file with Pinnacle, it complained that the software was not enabled for PAL.
> I am a bit confused as to MPG format - the files run fine using my media
> player. Are MPG files encoded for NTSC or PAL? How to convert one to the
> other? I am starting to think that Pinnacle was not a good choice for video
> editing since I have run into a number of problems with it so far. Other
> recommendations? Freeware is always good, but shareware and commercial is
> also ok to consider.


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