Wrongly imported 24p Advanced into 30i timeline.

Dear Forum,
I shot 24pA and imported it into a 30i timeline thinking that the output onto BetaSP would be in 30i. I am now almost done with editing this project and realized that I may have edited in the wrong timeline all along. Since the pull down (2:3:2:3 vs. 2:3:3:2) is not accurate and leaves me with an additional field of lines, making the image look striped every few frames. Is there any way of taking out these additional frames at this point? If I would have edited this project in a 24p timeline as required for 24pA shooting, how could I even output to a 30i format?
Thank you very much for your answer.
Sarah
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Your 24pA footage actually comes off the tape as 30i with the advanced pulldown, which is just the pattern of interlaced and de-interlaced frames which allows the 24p to be "put back together" from the 30i.
If you don't remove the pulldown, you should be able to edit these clips into a 30i timeline and not have any problems. You might see field lines in the canvas, or jiggly freeze frames on your external video on interlaced frames, but if you have used easy setup, and the field dominance of your clips matches that of your sequence, the 30i motion video should not show field artifacts. It is possible that if you have source material that has cuts in it, that you can get frames with fields from either side of the cut, but that's not to likely on tapes that came right from the camera.
If you want edit in 24p, you are in luck that your footage is 24pA, because this can be converted right in FCP, either before capture, or after, with "remove advanced pulldown". Once this is done, you will have 24p clips (23.98) that you can edit into a 24p timeline and everything will be progressive and groovy. When you output back to tape from a 24p timeline, there is a setting in the A/V prefs to determine whether the output to tape uses the standard or advanced pulldown. If you master the 24p to tape (where it will have pulldown added, as you can't acutally record"24p" on videotape) You should use edit to tape to be sure the program starts on a 00 frames point, such as 01:00:00:00 on a pre-striped tape with NDF timecode. Observing this standard will streamline any inverse telecine process that might be done with tape in the future, such as encoding to 24p for DVD, ar getting a film transfer made.
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