Outputting a 24 fps sequence at 25fps ? (pal video)

Hello everybody. I'm trying to output a short length movie I edited at 25fps. The film was shot at 24fps, telecine at 25fps, sound synced in FCP 4.5. I conformed the clips at 24fps to edit the film at the right speed. Now I want to output the film on a videotape at 25fps for the negative cutter (so that he'll have a visual reference with the one-to-one relationship between film and video frames). I guess this is not possible but maybe someone had to deal with this question before ?
Thanks
Rodolphe

Can't you just output the sequence you had before
converting the clips to 24?
Patrick
Hi. Actually I don't have any sequence before converting to 24fps, I edited with those clips already converted. I guess there's no solution for this question
Thanks anyway.
Rod
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