Advanced Pulldown

Has anyone had difficulty with removing advanced pulldown after capture? I captured footage shot with a Varicam, DVCPro HD 720p60. When I selected a clip to remove advanced pulldown I got an error message saying the clip was not DVCPro. Capture settings were all correct. Any ideas?
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) Quad

Has anyone had difficulty with removing advanced
pulldown after capture?
no, never
I captured footage shot
with a Varicam, DVCPro HD 720p60. When I selected a
clip to remove advanced pulldown I got an error
message saying the clip was not DVCPro. Capture
settings were all correct.
i was under the impression that the varicam did not use advanced pulldown. also, 720p60 needs no pulldown inserted.

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(3) From what I've read about Cinema Tools, it seems to be more suited for standard 3:2 pulldown, not advanced 2:3:3:2 pulldown. Am I mistaken, and how would I go about using CT in this case?
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Interesting.
A little more background...
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How to Remove Advanced Pulldown?

Some camcorders, such as the Panasonic AG-DVX100A (which is what I have), are designed to shoot in progressive mode at 24 fps (literally 23.98 fps) and then record the video to tape as a 60-field interlaced signal by applying a special kind of pull-down called advanced 2:3:3:2 pull-down. With previous versions of Final Cut, you could remove the redundant fields created by the camera’s pull-down, so that you can edit at 23.98 fps or 24 fps.
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In Final Cut Pro, select the clips or sequence.
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How do I do this in Final Cut Pro X?
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When I import a clip from tape/source then FCPX handles it correctly.
But there needs to be an option to fix this in already existing clips that have been imported prior to the existence of FCPX without re-importing all the footage.

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Name: FC
Description: DVX 24pA AVIs to MOV in FCPX 23.98P timeline
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 11.05 GB/hour of source
Audio Encoder
16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
Video Encoder
Width: 720
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV (16:9)
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: 23.976
Frame Controls On:
Retiming: (Fast) Nearest Frame
Resize Filter: Linear Filter
Deinterlace Filter: Reverse Telecine
Adaptive Details: Off
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Progressive
Codec Type: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
Scan Mode: Interlaced
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 100
Min. Spatial quality: 0
Temporal quality: 0
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Anybody come across this? I can't find anything in the forum about it.
I shot 24pAdvanced on my DVX-100A. Captured everything as 29.97 NTSC DV in 20 min segments. I do a DV Start/Stop Detect to get markers placed, then do an advanced pulldown removal and edit on 23.98 timeline. I've got about 100 hours of footage, and have been going along quite smoothly on about 80 of those hours.
Recently however, some clips mysteriously lose their audio after the pulldown removal! Both audio tracks are still there, but they are flatlined. All except for the first 4 or 5 seconds actually. That much audio is present. Then the waveforms show it just flatline. Recapturing the tape replaces the audio, but then it disappears after the pulldown again!
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Ok so here's my problem, I have Final Cut studio with FCP 4.5 and I'm trying to import 24p advanced pulldown media from my tapes, and getting a dropped frames warning that ends import; but after trying both cameras (the one the footage was shot with and a second one) and different tapes with normal footage and 24P advanced I still get the same error message. Then I went and replaced the firewire cable with no luck, and I just went and got a PCI firewire card qualified for video import same dropped frames.
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I too am having the exact same problem with 4.5 (although no advanced pull down) and 24p. Last week I was importing fine, this week, dropped frames right and left using batch capture after logging my clips.
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Quick question about advanced pulldown

Hi,
So, I am trying to make a MiniDV backup of a 23.98 sequence using FCP 4.5 and a Sony DCR-VX2000 camera. The footage in the sequence is non-time coded 23.98 footage from a DVD. To test if my backups are actually backups that I could later edit in 23.98, I have printed to tape, recaptured and removed the pulldown with either Cinema Tools or using Remove Advanced Pulldown, and placed the recaptured footage in a new 23.98 sequence. However, neither method has worked-- the wrong frames are removed or the captured footage just looked screwed up.
I tried two methods: printed to MiniDV with a 2:3:2:3 pulldown in the Playback settings, recaptured into FCP using normal DV capture, then used Cinema Tools'"batch reverse telecine" to remove the pulldown, then placed the footage in a new 23.98 sequence When that didn't work, I tried a 2:3:3:2 pulldown print to tape and captured using Advanced Pulldown Removal. That looked even worse.
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Well, this is what I did:
I created 4 tests clips, each printed to tape with a different playback setting (2323, 2332, 2224, full quality).
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