PAL DVD footage to NTSC

Hi all,
I've got a client with DVD footage from Lithuania, all regions enabled, but in the PAL video format. They have asked that I rip the video and audio so they can upload portions of it to their website. The client has the copyright and everything, but I'm really lost as how to get this into FCP and output it as NTSC. When importing from DVD to FCP in the past I have connected the DVD player to the computer through firewire and set it as a non-controllable device. Rough, but it works. However when I try that with the PAL footage, it is unable to recognize the video. I've changed the input to PAL, so I don't believe it is that.
Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'm pretty lost at this point! Thanks!

If its only for the web, there is no need to convert to NTSC. The computer will play it back regardless of the local TV standard. You can make the whole thing in PAL unless you have to mix NTSC footage with it.
To extract the DVD to an editable format, use [MPEG Streamclip|http://www.ssquared5.com]
If you must convert to NTSC, [JES Deinterlacer|http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/jesdeinterlacer.html] will give good results. Conversion will take a while, be patient.

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