NTSC 29.97 with pulldown to PAL conversion

i receive NTSC 29.97 fps MOTION JPEG A files and need to work with them in PAL VIDEO 25 fps - TC in picture SYN with timeline TC. the files have TC in the picture.
i tried reverse telecine to 23.98 and then conform to 25
picture & sound are there - but with the picture put in my PAL timeline the TIMELINE TC and THE PIC TC get out of sync.
we had a post house do that stuff, but since we work with FCP anyway, i want to be able to do it inhouse. should be possible somehow, right?
thanks for your help !

Wow...that's awesome! From what I see, I just open the video with CinemaTools, click on "conform" and tell it what I want, correct? So, I did that and it was super-fast...almost so fast you didn't think it was doing anything. I played the file back and it appears to have added pulldown, but the audio was sped up. Any ideas what to do now?
Thanks for the CinemaTools suggestion!!!

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