Mix Motion JPEG with DV

Several digital cameras will take video that uses the Apple OpenDML JPEG codec and is 30 fps. I want to mix such clips with NSTC DV, at 29.97 fps. Just dropping both types of clips into a 29.97 timeline doesn't work: FCP doesn't get the frame rate right for the JPEG video.
So I'd like to conform the JPEG video to 29.97 fps before importing it. For speed and to avoid recompression, this would be done by just dropping one frame out of every 1001. Is there a way to get FCP or Compressor or MPEG Streamclip or anything to do this? I am really tired of waiting around for unnecessary recompressions.
Or maybe there is a better way to mix these two kinds of clips?

Try transcoding the Motion JPEG material directly to DV NTSC in Compressor before you drop it in a sequence. You'll not have to render it then, but in any case, you'll have to recompress it to DV when you put it in directly... that is a recompression you can't get around in any event.
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