30 to 24 frames, pulldown removal issue

I'm working at this animation place. The animators work with the live footage that comes in to composite their animations. So I have to convert each shot from 30 to 24 fps (it comes in at 29.97)
So far the workflow has been export each scene using the current settings of 29.97 10 bit uncompressed non drop.
bring that qt into after effects.
interpret footage > conform to 30 fps > guess pulldown removal (WWSSW) then i'd render out a targa sequence at 24 frames, and everything works out nicely.
until,
I'm working on a sequence that when exported to QT
shows some scenes with split frames on EVERY frame.
so the remove pulldown feature in AE fails because of this.
I then discover that some of the scenes in question
have time remapping applied to them (frames blended).
Does anyone have a fix for how to handle footage with
time-remapping applied, so it exports with proper 3:2 pulldown?

Cinema Tools can remove the pulldown in one step from the 29.97 files. I doubt this will work right at all with time remapped clips though, so you need to go back to the originals, then time remap them back after they've had their pulldown removed I'd think.
You are right about the clips... need to do them one at a time. I suppose you could try a sequence, but the result would end up being one long clip... might not want that?
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