Frame rate changing on import?

I have video shot on a panasonic sdr-h18, the file comes up as a .mod, I use mpeg streamclip to demux it to unscaled m2v and .aiff, all is fine so far. According to mpeg streamclip, both the old and the new file are at 29.97, and quicktime agrees. FCE 3.51 imports it and says it's at 30fps (the sequence & project are 29.97, as are other video materials in the session). This is driving me nuts! Any ideas?

Well, FCE does distinguish between the rates, and it lists videos of both frame rates in the session... and I've encountered sync drifting on edits on I've made on very long imported video in the past (over 45 minute long source material).
I used the unscaled function on streamclip for two reasons:
1. The original video was shot at 704x480, and it will absolutely be cropped and rescaled to an undetermined size later. I erroneously thought the video quality would be better unscaled, but after reading your post I re-imported it via your method and the video quality was noticibly improved. (It was also imported at 29.97 - go figure!)
2. To reduce the files sizes. The .m2v + .aiff files roughly double the file size of the original .mod file, but the .mov file quadruples it! Also, once all the editing is completed, I can easily dump all the .aiff files as they won't be used in the final product (it's a music video)

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