24p Advance Capture Question? Problem?

Hi I have a lot of material for a feature film shoot on a DVX100 in 24p Advance using a 16:9 anamorphic converter lens. I am Using FCP6 and I am capturing with a custom preset to be able to capture in 16:9 with the Remove Pulldown option cheked to edit in 24p (I will eventually transfer to film) The weird thing or problem that I am having is that most of the clips shows up as 23.98 as it should be But some times I get some clips in 29.97!!!! The camera Setting was never changed in Production!!! it always stayed in F6 the 24p Advance setting!!! I then tried the remove Pulldown options in Tools menu but I ended up with a clip with interlace fields!!!! very Weird!! So I thought that the tape was shoot in regular 24p, but I made a test shoot in regular 24p and then tried to remove the Pulldown via the Tools menu option but It won't let me because it was NOT shoot in 24pA!!! Si I have a Bunch of clips in 29.97 That I KNOW I shoot in 24pA but for some reason when I capture it doesn't remove the Fields and When I tried to remove it after capture I ended up with a interlace clip!!! Does anybody know id theres a Bug with this Workflow!! The camera is the DVX100 not the DVX100A or DVX100B. I used Cinema tools to convert the footage and it did it fine, But I want to avoid using Cinema Tools because it adds more time to the production!!! Can anyone have a clue? Thanks in advance!!!

I've been working with 24PA footage from a DVX-100A and an HVX-200 for three years now. I do find it tricky to get the Advanced Pulldown Removal to work properly during digitizing.
Now, the following advice relates ONLY to footage shot in the 24P Advanced mode. I have never worked with footage shot 24P "regular pulldown." I think you're supposed to just capture and work with that footage in 29.97 mode, enjoying the 24p "look" but not a true 23.98 frame rate.
Any little interruption - the camera stops for more than 15 minutes being the most common - will break the cadence of the 24p pulldown. So you have to break up your tape into clips which don't cross these "cadence breaks."
Also, some VTRs and cameras seem to work better than others. There's not always rhyme or reason to this (more expensive may not equal better performance.) For example, right now, I have some footage which my Sony DSR-11 deck was choking on but my friend's Sony FX-1 camera plays back for capture just fine.
My method is to rewind my shoot tapes to the begining, hit "play" then "Capture now."
FCP captures the whole tape, breaking up into clips, sometimes at inexplicable but always consistent places.
Usually, the last clip captured will be at 29.97 frame rate. The 24p "look" is still present in the footage, but obviously if you cut it into a 23.98 fps sequence, you'll have to render - a very annoying waste of time.
I observe the in and out points of any 29.97 clips, and capture new clips based on them. For example, if I get:
TAPE 001 TC IN 1:00:32:19 TC OUT 1:29:57:22 RATE 29.97
I make a new clip and capture it (batch capture if you like):
TAPE 001 TC IN 1:00:35:00 TC OUT 1:29:55:00 RATE 23.98.
The bottom line, though, is the more suitable your equipment, the better results you'll get.
Good luck. I hope this helps.

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