Multi Region DVD...how?

I have edited my video in Final Cut Pro and its NTSC format. I want to burn it to DVD but I wasn't sure how to make the DVD multiregion so that no only a person from the USA can see it but a person from the UK can see it as well?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks

FWIW you may need to make a PAL DVD to be most assured of success (though many people in Europe have NTSC set ups, at least more than here in the U.S. who have PAL)
So the video, menus and the DVD itself will need to be changed to PAL.
The menus need to be laid out in the PAL size, the DVD SP project set to PAL and the footage made to PAL. (FWIW Compressor has some built in conversions but there are other tools, such as plug ins for FCP out there which probably give better results.)

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