Vertical Black Lines on edges after 4:3 PAL - 4:3 NTSC conversion

I hate to cross post - but few people seem to use the Compressor Forum and there's been zero response.
. . . and once you guys in the US go to beddy-bies, I'll lose another day with the time-lag!
Can anyone come up with a cure for this little PAL - NTSC problem?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=580170&tstart=0
Andy
G5 Quad. 8 GB. 250 & 500 GB Internal HDs. G-Tech G-Raid 1 TB. FCP 5.0.4 (Studio)   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   Sony HVR-Z1E.
You can't educate pork . . ..

> My other thought would be it is a scaling issue.
Going from 576 vertical pixels to 480 vertical
pixels will involve scaling the video
Of COURSE . . . !
Thanks for the tip, Trevor - when I read that, I compared the equivalent still from the PAL footage and realised the NTSC clip was squeezed!
I went through the Inspector settings and Constrain to Display Aspect was set to NONE. I've set this to 4:3 and it's cooking as I type . . .
>I have produced NTSC DVDs from PAL source by creating a PAL
DVD in DVDSP, duplicating the project, deleting the
media, changing the project to NTSC and reimporting
the media. Encoding was done in DVDSP and the
results were fine for our purpose.
Not heard of this one - but I'll certainly try it when I get a chance. I strongly recommend Hanumang's recipe though - the quality's excellent.
But you need plenty of processor power. An 80 min movie I processed some weeks ago (chapter by chapter) took several days and nights - even on the Quad G5.
I feel it's well worth it though - and I can get on with other work (Photoshop, Word, Internet etc) while it's processing. FCP seems to be one of the few things you can't use while Compressor is working.
I'll post back when I have the result of my latest Compressor test.
Andy
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