Add Image Sequence default frame rate

Compresssor 3.5 appears to default to 24 fps when adding image sequences to the batch.
Is it possible to change this default to 23.98 fps in a plist somewhere? I deal almost exclusively in 23.98 material so having to change this for EVERY image sequence I process is a pain.
-Matt

I'll try to re-formulate (I'm sorry, english is not my native language).
What I do in Compressor:
1) I import my image sequence
2) set it at 25fps in the image sequence settings
3) choose prores 25fps export (I created a prores preset at 25fps, as you suggested)
And the resulting clip is okay.
BUT
I have many image sequences and it's too slow to manually interpret every one of them at 25fps. The problem is in point 2). Because there's no way to interpret all the image sequences at 25fps with just one click for all.
I think it's the same with quicktime: you have to import every single image sequence, select the frame rate, export... one at a time.
I will have a look at mpeg streamclip.
thanks for answers

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