Sony A7s. Problems conforming 59.94 to 23.976

Hello
I'm trying to Modify / Interpret the footage so it plays back in slow motion. I've been doing this for years without a problem however this is the first time I'm cutting with Sony A7s footage. As usual I go into the browser control click the clip > modify > Interpret footage and change my frame rate.
This works fine on some clips and the other clips it looks like I just slowed down a normal old 24 FPS clip.... That ugly choppy playback where all the in between frames are missing.
So far the only distinguishable difference I can locate is the file format. Below is a sample from two clips, the info is from the clip properties in Premiere.
Clips that won't conform properly
PRIVATE/M4ROOT/CLIP/C0023.MP4
Type: MPEG Movie
File Size: 1.6 GB
Image Size: 1920 x 1080
Frame Rate: 59.94
Clips that conform fine
private/AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM/00003.MTS
Type: MPEG Movie
File Size: 136.9 MB
Image Size: 1920 x 1080
Frame Rate: 59.94
It obviously doesn't like that .MP4 or M4ROOT
Does anyone have a work around or any technical explanation of what is distinguishing this .MP4 from others ?
Also I tried to conform in cinema tools but that doesn't recognize .MP4 clips and it won't open them.
Any help, advice or links would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

Your post scared the crap out of me. Ive shot about 10 weddings using the A7s and all of it is shot at 60p in XAVCs and then edited on a 24p timeline. Most of it is slowed down. I hadn't edited any of my footage from the last 10 weddings so I got scared that all those weddings would be choppy as you mentioned when it's slowed down. But, I just checked with a wedding I shot today (all at 1080p60 XAVCs (in that M4ROOT folder) on a 24p timeline) and it wasn't choppy on this end. Not sure what's happening on your end to make it not smooth slow-mo. Did you double check your sequence settings? I don't know. I have no idea what to tell you except that it "should" work okay. I do know that if I took a 60p clip and slowed it down 40% on that 24p timeline then I get the same smooth slow-mo result as doing it the normal "interpret footage" way. What happens if you do it that way? If that same clip was nested first and then slowed down 40%, it appears choppy. Sorry if I'm of no help. Just reporting what I see on my end.

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