NTSC video, NTSC Timeline in FCP, my client now needs PAL DVDs....

Can you give me a quick overview of what the best workflow would be to make PAL-compatible DVD's from my NTSC FCP Project?
Much appreciated.

i'll second that ... Graeme's standards conversion filter set provide excellent results that can even rival a high quality hardware conversion
http://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm
but if thats not an option:
you can simply create a new empty PAL sequence, copy your NTSC edit into it and then let FCP handle the conversion ... won't be a great result though.
or you if you're going to encode in DVDSP then you can let Compressor handle it, with File >Export >Using Compressor... and then choose a PAL DVD preset ... will be better than FCP but not as good as the Nattress plugin
or you can just export as is and then let iDVD/DVDSP handle it by changing the preferneces to PAL
and I'd agree with Capt'M in that most PAL DVD players can handle NTSC discs these days ... might be worth double checking to see if they could in fact use the original NTSC version

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