Converting Pal 25p to NTSC 30p?

On location. Got stuck with a two camera shoot. Principal camera is an EX3 at 24 or 30p. Second camera turns out to have just arrived from Australia, a new Sony HDR-PJ760. Nice little job. But it only does 25p, or 50i I think.
These are presentations: One camera on the speaker (EX3). The other on a large screen projecting Powerpoints (HDR-PJ760). There is no time to find another camera.
How tricky is it to convert the 25p to 30p? Or would it be better to shoot the EX3 at 24p?
I want to be able to edit the two cameras as a multicam setup in FCP.
Any suggestions would be most helpful. We have three days of presentations to start tomorrow morning.
Mmmm... wondering vaguely if one can change a PAL made camera to NTSC with a firmware change? Just on the off chance...
Where is Grahan Nattress when you need him!
Ben

Shoot the speaker at 24p, an the presentation at 25p. You can then bring the 25p material (after converting to prores) into cinematools and conform to 24p. This will be slightly slower, but there will be no loss in quality as your'e just changing the meta data (quicktime sees it as 23.98 fps) and you should be able to make slight edits to bring it back to synch when necessary. if that's not clear, post back and I"ll try and explain in greater detail. I've shot a number of projects with the panasonic hmc150 at 24p and done a conform to 25p to send to England without any issues.

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