[Payson Mathewson]

I need to make an NTSC version of my PAL 25fps Doco to send to the USA – make a DVD copy to send.
Can this be done in FCP? or in Compressor? I have tried several things to date with not joy:
Exported sequence as NTSC DV but frame rate didn’t change and there was interlacing line issues in QT movie version.

Created new sequence with settings: NTSC 29.97 fps etc. then copied and pasted PAL project into new sequence – then exported as QT movie to make DVD in iDVD – but no joy, still issues with edits being out of sync, etc. due to fps changing to 29.97.

Can I export to Compressor? the only problem here is that I can’t create a DVD in iDVD with movies exported from Compressor.
I have read the questions in the forum by Mariana Sussekind from Nov 25, 2009 – sounded confusing and sounded like I need a third party standards conversion software package??? There must be a simple way to do this?

Any help appreciated.
Cheers,
Payson

[Payson Mathewson]

Cheers for that info Michael, I will wait until my finances warrant FCS3 upgrade and SL OS. I just thought it would be nice to have my Mac Pro up to date with OS etc. but it sounds like a lot of mucking about for not a lot of gain. Thanks again for your comments/help.

Cheers,
Payson

[Payson Mathewson]

Thanks for that Jerry,
After I posted my question I did a bit of research and most of the advise was to do a complete clean install.
So, as I am not having any problems with current set-up (Tiger 10.4 and FCS2) I guess I will hold off on Snow Leopard upgrade.

Thanks,
Payson