Working with 30p video (recorded at 60i) as native 30p

I'm about to buy a Panasonic HMC150 which can record in 30p, but it saves AVCHD files as 60i. When I bring this footage into Final Cut I will want to work in 30p mode so that any new elements added (such as titles) won't get the ugly interlaced venetian blind treatment when viewed on a computer.
The thing I'm not clear about is whether Final Cut is going to let me convert that 60i AVCHD file back to the 30p that it was actually recorded at, or if Final Cut is going to assume it's "real" 60i footage and try to de-interlace it down to 30p.
I realize that it would be perfectly safe for me to work with that footage as 60i because the fields each come from single 30p frames, so I won't get any bad venetian blind effect. That's not what worries me. What worries me is that if I'm working in 60i mode in Final Cut, if I create animated titles or other new effects, those effects will be field-interlaced and appear whacked when viewed on a computer screen.
Since my footage was shot 30p, I'd like to work with it in 30p, but I'm just not sure that Final Cut is going to let me do that. Any know?
Thanks,
-Brian

Hmm... I'm confused. In this case you and I know that the 60i footage is the same as 30p, but how would FCP know that? How could FCP know that it's not "real" 60i where the even/odd lines are offset, this every frame would need to be deinterlaced upon conversion to 30p?

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