From PAL project to NTSC - easy way?

Hello,
I made a nice PAL DVD9 with 4 menu's and some submenu's and tons of little transition movies, and 10 shorts (animation) and some extra's (trailers, making of). The DVD's now at the replicator, has been tested and will be pressed.
Now I have to do an NTSC version. We've rerendered all of our motion menu's, and converted other video assets.
Now, do I really have to physically remove all video assets from the assets menu in order to make the disc an NTSC disc, then import all NTSC video assets and figure out where they were supposed to go (43 menu's and tracks!)?
Isn't there an easy way out? I removed all the PAL MPEGs so now they're missing and offline, but DVDSP4.2 still doesn't allow me to change the project to an NTSC one. I can however replace (relink) the missing MPEGs for the NTSC versions I encoded! But I take it there will be trouble at the mastering fase when I deliver a 'PAL' disc with all NTSC video..

Hi Roloff
Unfortunately there's no way around replacing the mpegs. Personally I replace them all manually to make sure everythings everythings hunky-dory - but I suppose if you make all of your NTSC file names identical to your PAL names you could re-link them automatically. Which ever way you do it though, all your chapter markers and connections should remain intact if you only delete the asset from the tracks and leave the track itself.
If DVDSP is not letting you change the project from PAL to NTSC then there still must be some PAL assets in the project. If you have any menus that DVDSP has encoded, you'll need to remove the mpegs that DVDSP created for the project as well. Also DVDSP will not let you make a PAL disc with NTSC assets.
Hope some of that helps.
Cheers
B

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