Canon 7D 720/60p converted to 720/24p in Premiere Pro CS4

I've exhausted all my resources trying to find a simple answer but it seems like anything regarding 60p to 24p is about slow motion video which I already know how to do and understand thoroughly.
My question is, with my Canon 7D, there's no option for 720/24p (23.976), there's only 720/60p (29.97) or 50p.  Getting 30p video is simple because Premiere just drops every other frame.  Now 24p is a little trickier.  There is an option for 1080/24p which is overkill for what I want and need to do.  I also don't have the capacity in memory cards for that.
I understand that if I drop a 60p video on a 24p timeline, Premiere will just drop frames.  But since 60 is not divisible by 24.. how does Premiere know which frames to drop?  I believe there's also a Frame Blending option as well.. how would that work? 
I'm looking for the best way to convert 60p video to 24p in Premiere.  I can't imagine it being overly complicated.

quazis wrote:
Thanks for the reply but I'm not sure who told you that 1080p24 produces smaller file sizes than 720p60.
Canon 7D has a max recording limit of 4gb (per file) due to FAT32 file system restrictions.  At 1080p,  4gb = 12minutes.  On a 16gb card, that's only 48minutes.  At 720p, 4gb = 30minutes.  That's 2 hours.
Then it's Canon's encoding scheme or sensor use that makes such a huge difference.  My AVCHD files from a Panasonic HMC150 are smaller at 1080p24 than at 720p60.  Which makes sense since the raw pixel count per second is less with 1080p24 (49,766,400 at 1080p24 versus 55,296,00 for 720p60).
I have a tutorial on my web site about using dv2film, which is designed to convert 60i DV to 24p DV.  But it also works for HD footage.  Check it out and let me know what you think.
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