Conform from 24P to 60P -- Please Help!

Question

I accidentally batch captured some HD 24FPS footage from a Varicam at 60FPS over firewire via the panasonic HD1200A deck using the DVCPRO HD CODEC. Final Cut normally removes the extra frames upon capture to make it 24fps. But for troubleshooting purposes (it kept aborting capture) I ended up capturing the footage without the frame removal pulldown feature enabled.
To fix this, I mistakenly tried the Cinema Tools conform feature to "conform" the footage to 24fps. This didn't remove the pulldown, but rather just slowed everything down, esentially stretching out time, making my audio tracks unusable. Unfortunately, there seems no way to conform the footage back to 60fps because the conform window only allows 24 and 30fps conversions. I need a 60fps conform technique. Is there a way to fix the footage?

Answer 1

Thanks for the help!
the reason I couldn't capture reliably using the 24P settings appears to be that my Firewire bus is not functioning properly--I'll get it into service but that's another issue.
Since recapturing isn't really an option because the deck was a one-time rental, I tried a slightly lossy technique, but the results were acceptable to me. Creating an image sequence was a good idea, but I wanted to preserve my audio track simulateously.
Here's what worked for me:
I started by conforming again in cinema tools to 30 fps. This gave me a simple even denominator of 60P. I then added each of these footage files to a 60P DVCPRO HD sequence. I then adjusted the speed of the clips in the timeline 200% and turned off frame blending. I then exported (recompressed) the footage to new flattened clips. I then took the conformed, messed up files offline and reconnected to the new clips, thereby preserving my loging notes, etc.
It was time consuming but worked. The audio is 48K again and the playback is 60P.
Frankly, I made a mistake that will become more common as the HD userbase expands. Most people don't understand that the Varicam 24P is actually recorded at 60P. I hope Apple updates Cinema Tools to conform back to 60P before more people make my mistake.
Thanks!