NTSC Project to PAL - Different than previous posting

I have a NTSC project in Encore 2.0. I rendered videos for it in NTSC and PAL from Premier.
My problem that I don't want to rebuild my entire DVD project in Encore just to link the PAL videos.
But, I haven't seen a way to export the project or save it as a PAL project.
Any tips or clues? I want the PAL project to be just like the NTSC project except to use the PAL clips instead of NTSC.
Chuck

Chuck,
With all due respect, did you read/understand BJ's post just above yours?
He describes what issues you will encounter with Encore or any software, and why, even if you could convert the video on the fly, the menus would need to be re-done from scratch.
Finally, no. There is no project setting you can change. You must start a new project. If you dig around in the project folder of the NTSC project, you can probably decipher which are the menu files. Maybe you can salvage something from that.
Best of luck,
Jeff

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