Re: Best way to convert an authored NTSC DVD to PAL?

Thank you both, Max and Roman, for your advice and thoughts about how to create a PAL Scenarist project from an NTSC version.

Since the motion menus and video transitions were created in After Effects in 30 fps video, what is the easiest to convert those AE menu clips to PAL? Does AE have a fps conversion option? Should our DVD author use compressor? Or, will we need to convert the menu video files to PAL in the same way as our video feature and special features? (I know that the menu buttons will have to be replaced).

Also, since the video clips for the NTSC Scenarist project were already digitized to Quciktime files, is there an easy way to convert them all to PAL? Is there software that can do this, or should I take the clips to a lab like Lightening Media in Los Angeles for the conversion. The most time-consuming way would be to reassemble the clips on a timeline, export them to tape, and have the lab convert the entire tape to PAL, and then redigitize each clip individually in the new PAL format, but that seems like the long way of doing this. Thank you for any suggestions for converting the QT project clips.

Thank you for all of your thoughts and advice,

Khashyar