PAL is really only used in Europe and abroad. So if you are a Euro, PAL is fine. But everyone in the states uses NTSC. When you're selecting output settings, try selecting qualities such as "Computer Playback" or "LAN" as these will offer video bitrates of high quality. If you are from North America and are trying the PAL setting, you are probably running into problems based off of that your camcorder records in NTSC. PAL uses a different frame rate (higher) than NTSC (along with some other settings). So you may be encountering problems with this improper conversion.
It doesn't hurt to google come WMM tutorials. I know microsoft has a site dedicated on how to use it, rather than getting half answers from people on here.
