NTSC MP4?

Hi there,
I'm in Europe and have been asked an odd question by a client in the US. He wants me to shoot a clip in NTSC but deliver it was an mp4 file.
Now, I could shoot it at 30fps on a Canon 7D, drop it into FCP7 and produce a 30fps .mov. This would then be converted into mp4 format using Mpegstreamclip.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you for your time,
Stu

Thanks Shane. Figured you'd be out there somewhere.
Convert to which ProRes codec?
The rest seems simple enough.

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