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Our studio recently purchased a new camera for some run-and-gun shooting. Unfortunately, it does not support 24p natively, only 60p & 60i. It does, however, support shutter speeds from 1/2 all the way to 1/4000. What advice can you give regarding pulldown conversion into a 24p project, both for camera settings and FCPX?
Please note that I'm looking for 1:1 speed, NOT slow-mo.

Shane, I understand the difference in motion. And as I said, it was not my intention to capture at the frame rate that I did. With regards to the slight stutteryness, I'm comparing one of these problem clips to an actual 24pN clip from an earlier part of the shoot. I put both in the 23.97 timeline, but the one captured at 60p feels like it should still run slightly smoother or with a little bit more motion blur maybe. I think I'm simply looking for the best way to cheat that "look" back into the footage.
Your post below is right. Cinema Tools is not a good option for that as this doesn't really have much to do with 2:3 3:2 pulldown type operations and it won't let me conform the footage anyway.
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