Using a Blackmagic Card to remove Pulldown

Hi,
We did a test here where we setup our Blackmagic card to remove the pulldown (hardware) from Digital Betacam footage shot in film. The only option that we saw in the preference pane for blackmagic was to select the frame reference (00)-(01)-(02) etc.
In FCP 5.0 we used the blackmagic 8 bit capture presets. We put the fps at 23.98. The grab went fine, the pulldown was removed properly. That was surprising since we thought it wasn't supported, but after several tests we could confirm that it was working properly.
The thing that we realised later was that the timecode in the quicktime file was totally wrong: it was kind of randomly offset + it was in 29.97 fps even though the clip was playing in 24fps. So are we missing a setting here, or it just because the feature is not supported inside FCP5.0 ?
I can handle the truth.
thanks in advance
seb
PowerMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Very interesting, as I also thought the AJA was the way to go if you wanted to do pulldown removal. Just to clarify, you were capturing at 23.98p, correct? You just have me a little confused when you say "the clip was playing in 24fps" as 24fps and 23.98p are different settings.
Also, it's the timecode in FCP that's displaying 29.97, right? A little while ago I was in a forum where there was confusion b/t timecode in FCP and the burn in time code. That doesn't sound like what you're experiencing though. Other than the timecode, you say everything look right? No interlaced frames or anything like that? Again, from your description it sounds like this all went fine. My only guess is that Black Magic can remove the pulldown but can't properly deal with the timecode so they say it's not supported. In my limited experience, I captured interlaced, removed the pulldown, and used the media manager to make offline copies. This worked perfectly switching b/t the online and offline versions. Surprisingly, even when I accidentally directed the timeline to reconnect to the interlaced media that I had not deleted yet, I still eneded up at the same place in the footage. So, I'm guessing keeping up with all these timecodes is a tricky matter and perhaps Black Magic is directly their efforts elsewhere.

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