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FCP noob trying to make a PAL disc in iDVD from NTSC
I am about six months into editing a 12 minute short film, my maiden voyage in in Final Cut Pro 6 after dabbling in Final Cut Express for two years. I shot all my material on NTSC DVCPro HD, and I am now trying to find the safest way burn a quick PAL DVD-R of my work-print as a work-in-progress submission to film festivals in Europe.
I have successfully used iDVD to burn work-print copies in NTSC, but I am a bit nervous about relying on iDVD and its 'PAL' preference to submit to a festival in Europe because I don't have any way of previewing the DVD on an PAL player before I ship it to festivals.
As an FCP noob, I am not yet competent in DVD Studio Pro, I just have not had time to learn that application yet. Can anyone advise a way to safely burn a PAL disc in iDVD, from NTSC in FCP?
My best guess: export the movie from FCP as a Quicktime using the DVCPro PAL 48 kHz setting, then import into iDVD with the PAL setting -- does this sound correct? The part I am not sure about is where the standard conversion happens: I am assuming I must output PAL from Final Cut; just setting 'PAL' in iDVD won't hack it?
To anyone who's browsing, I can highly recommend the upgrade from FC Express to FCP. It's an amazing resource. Thanks in advance.
I am about six months into editing a 12 minute short film, my maiden voyage in in Final Cut Pro 6 after dabbling in Final Cut Express for two years. I shot all my material on NTSC DVCPro HD, and I am now trying to find the safest way burn a quick PAL DVD-R of my work-print as a work-in-progress submission to film festivals in Europe.
I have successfully used iDVD to burn work-print copies in NTSC, but I am a bit nervous about relying on iDVD and its 'PAL' preference to submit to a festival in Europe because I don't have any way of previewing the DVD on an PAL player before I ship it to festivals.
As an FCP noob, I am not yet competent in DVD Studio Pro, I just have not had time to learn that application yet. Can anyone advise a way to safely burn a PAL disc in iDVD, from NTSC in FCP?
My best guess: export the movie from FCP as a Quicktime using the DVCPro PAL 48 kHz setting, then import into iDVD with the PAL setting -- does this sound correct? The part I am not sure about is where the standard conversion happens: I am assuming I must output PAL from Final Cut; just setting 'PAL' in iDVD won't hack it?
To anyone who's browsing, I can highly recommend the upgrade from FC Express to FCP. It's an amazing resource. Thanks in advance.