Clips Conforming to Project Properties - Sometimes

Having preset custom properties for a new Project, is there a way to have ALL clips added to that Project/Timeline (whether inserted, appended, dragged, whatever) automatically conform to those custom settings, in particular the frame rate?
I've spent the past few hours testing every subtle variation I can think to test, but the result is still that SOME clips get correctly converted and some don't -- but the exact SAME clip will get processed correctly in one Test Project, yet not in another, and I just can't determine a consistent reason why.
(I've added full workflow details below.)
Am I overlooking something obvious, or is this kind of baffling behavior -- wherein clips sometimes conform to specific Project Properties and sometimes don't (and the SAME clip gets processed differently in different Projects, each created with the SAME Property settings) -- just another "feature" of the new Final Cut?
Any suggestions appreciated!
Thanks,
John B.
Toronto
PROJECT SPECIFICS:
- Original media is AVCHD 1920x1080 files acquired on a Canon HF-10 camera at the "24p" setting, which a colleague refers to as "24f", as in "24-fake";
- the files are actually 29.97i with every fourth frame repeated, so after import, viewing them from the Event Browser one frame at a time, the pattern for every five frames is A-B-C-D-D, A-B-C-D-D, etc.
- So if I simply let the new Project's properties be determined by the first clip, it will become a 1920x1080 29.97i project;
- But if I custom set the new Project's frame rate to either 24p or 23.98p, and THEN add Clip1, an orange render bar (are we still supposed to call them that?) appears briefly overtop Clip1, after which -- SOMETIMES -- Clip1 now plays with that pulldown-simulating extra frame removed, in a smooth, true 24fps timeline.
- And that's exactly what I want to have happen, by default, with EVERY clip I add to this particular project; the trouble is: I can't make it happen consistently. Sometimes the render bar appears when I add the new clip; sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes even when it does appear, the end result just for that clip (and only on the timeline) is a horribly stuttery A-A-B-B-C-C-D-D-E-E.... cadence. (And that's after making sure ALL rendering is completely finished.) Other times -- grabbing the EXACT SAME CLIP from the Event Browser, but placing it in a new 24fps timeline -- the "conversion" works perfectly, and the clip on the timeline now plays smoothly at 24fps with no repeating frames anywhere.

24fps does not have pulldown. You're just changing the frame rate and Streamclip is reconforming it as best it can with frame blending. 24fps is not supported in FCE and should not be used.

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