Pal to NTSC Graphics Bad Quality

Hi There,
I am currently working on a project which requires the conversion to Ntsc from PAL and for some reason , when I transfer a particular segment which I designed in Motion. It makes all of the graphics in the segment very badly pixelated and unwatchable.
I am using natress converter to do the transfer however it was also doing the same thing in final cut when I simply placed the pal .mtn file into the ntsc project.
Very frustrating.
Can anyone shed some light?

Can anyone shed some light?
Maybe a bit, though there is much more expertise hanging around here than mine.
Standards conversion is a very dicey thing. Things have gotten a lot better over the years with the scaling part (525 lines to 625 lines). But the temporal part (30 frames into 25 and vice versa) is a lot harder to do well, and especially hard on clean sharp moving graphics. This is where even the best stuff (such as Natress) will show that it can't get you all the way.
Fortunately for you, you made this stuff. So going back into Motion and converting your stuff into a PAL environment will produce absolutely stunning results - almost 20% more stunning than your NTSC results. Pop them into your PAL sequence with your otherwise converted video footage and you'll be all set. If the Motion segments include some of the NTSC footage, then you'll want to replace them with PAL conversions of those clips.
Easier said than done - you'll have a bunch of math to do unless some genius comes in and says Motion has an automatic conversion mode. But the results will be great.

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