PAL to NTSC for DVD

I have got a PAL Final Cut Pro sequence that needs to be made into an NTSC DVD. What's the best way of doing this?
Can I just export my project as an NTSC self-contained movie and then encode it to mpeg2 and put into DSP as I normally would with a PAL project?

You need to converter the PAL sequence to NTSC before create the NTSC DVD. There are several ways to do the standards conversion.
1) Compression 2 has conversion in it now - just make sure you use the otipical flow setting to get the best result. Down side is it is VERY slow!!
2) Graeme Natress has a plugin for final cut - www.natress.com
3) We use the standard alone DVfilm application, Atlantis - with this you export your sequence as a self contained movie, and then open it in Atlantis and let it do the work. www.dvfilm.com .
We choose Atlantis over Natresses standard conversion because it worked a little bit better for us with slow-mo of fast action sequences, but we haven't used the latest versions.
With Atlantis we get a conversion time ratio of 1:3 eg. 1 minute of footage takes 3 minutes to convert. Thats on a Dual 2.5Gb G5 with 2Gb of RAM.
Of course once you;ve run the standards conversion you get out a NTSC-DV sequence and then you need to encode this to mpeg2.
Hope this helps.

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