Image Sequences PAL to NTSC

I have a bunch of image sequences that are currently in the PAL aspect ratio. I'm going to be using them as title/chyron/lower third backgrounds that I'll be putting text on and using them in FCP over an NTSC sequence.
My question is how to go about making these image sequences NTSC. My first thought is simple when I build the Image Sequence in QT, setting them to NTSC standards, 29.97, Animation Codec with 720:486. Or I could set them to PAL specifications and convert them in compressor's standards convertor. I also have the Graham Nattress standards converter as well. I tried doing the first way, and the look seemed pretty close. Nothing looked squished or anything.
I think that avoiding standards conversion may be okay with these files as they are basically tiff files and not true video. Thank you, everyone!

You can also use JES Deinterlacer, which is free. Go to:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeschot/home.html#DEI
I had some PAL video I wanted to change into NTSC - I ended up working on the whole project in PAL in FCE, then exporting my finished movie, and only converting the final movie into NTSC at the end. JES does a very good job, but I do see some artifacts of the conversion, so I wanted to keep my edits in the clean PAL video, in case I got a better conversion later. I use FCE 3.5.1, though. I hear FCE 4 can use files in various formats at the same time. Not sure how that works, and what choices you can make about conversion, when it finally happens.
The Nattress converter demo looked good, and gets many good ratings - but with FCE 4 accepting various formats, does that not mean it should have it's own way of converting formats? don't know.

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