I have a PAL mini DV tape which I want to convert to a US DVD. When I have taken it to video conversion companies they have converted the PAL mini DV to NTSC mini DV before burning the DVD and consequently the footage suffers great quality loss. One company used Final Cut Pro - when the PAL footage was imported into the computer it could be viewed without quality loss, however to get it onto DVD they had to convert to NTSC first. Is there a way to bipass the NTSC conversion and have the PAL mini DV transfered directly to a US region DVD.