Possible to switch PAL in to NTSC out?

I shoot on a PAL Sony 150. Edit with FCE. Produce DVDs in PAL (for Europe). But I'd like to also produce NTSC DVDs. Can I do it? I don't find anything in the manuals or online help (am I not looking in the right place?).

If you are using DVD Studio Pro to author your DVD you can make an NTSC DVD. Some people recommend you encode your MPEGs to NTSC outside of DVD Studio Pro (Compressor can do this). We have had some success in creating both PAL and NTSC versions of the same disk by creating the PAL version, duplicating the project and changing it to an NTSC disk and then reencoding the media as NTSC from within DVD Studio Pro.
Don't forget to make the disk multiregion or region 1 or they still won't be able to play it in the US.
Good Luck
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