Any advice on converting NTSC DV to PAL DV, without losing too much quality ?

I.e. if you want to preserve the correct aspect ratio in 4:3 NTSC to PAL .dv conversion:

Source 720x480 must be resampled to 711x569 and padded 4+5 pixels to both sides and padded 3+4 pixels to top and bottom to 720x576.

"Many people use direct resampling [720x480 to 720x576] for all the wrong reasons: 1) They think that a 720×480 frame directly equals to a 720×576 frame. 2) They also think that both aforementioned frame sizes represent exactly the active 4:3 (or 16:9) picture area, edge to edge. As you already know from Section 2.1, both of these assumptions are wrong. The fact that direct resampling works at all is mostly a quirky coincidence"

Frame rate conversion (and interlacing) is even messier and might produce visible stutter/ghosting.

As Tom said, European DVD players can play either NTSC or PAL.

If you need near perfect quality, outsource this to a company like Four Media in Burbank, California. That's who we use.

Try creating an empty Custom PAL FCP Project then copy paste the NTSC version into it.

Share>DVD.

Al

NTSC <-> PAL is destructive.

First convert 720×480 ITU-R BT.601 to 720×576 ITU-R BT.601 to pixels. In other words, a "NTSC" to "PAL" conversion:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140218044518/http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~f76998/video/conversion/

Then convert 30000/1001 fps to 25 fps.

Sorry, but I have to ask... WHY?

NTSC and PAL are analog TV technologies that have since died.

For a computer, they are totally irrelevant, so I can't see why one would care one way or another.

You might as well convert this H264.

The DVD doesn't use DV so the production video format doesn't matter, just the quality. Also, I believe every European DVD player can play either NTSC or PAL.