24p with Cinema Tools (before or after?)

[NoPun]

Hello.

QUESTION: Shot footage on 24p (48K audio), with Letterbox setting. Will be captured at 29.97 with 4:3 aspect ratio, and edited on 29.97 timeline. Output might be to video and DVD. Can the edited 29.97 sequence be exported to Cinema Tools to create a 23.98 sequence which can then be imported back into FCP for 24p DVD output?

I know that normally you would "reverse telecine" the raw footage before editing to timeline. For flexibility: wondering if there is any disadvantage to editing at 29.97 and then doing the reverse telecine on the final edit.

Thank you!

T---

 

[Scottdvx100]

The problem is once it's been edited the cadence could change for each and every clip and you may cut at a point that will only return 1 field of a frames.
2:3:2:3 means there's a cycle of interlaced fields. There's 5 possible combination. When you capture they're all the same. Once you edit clisp together though you're not cutting on 5 frame increments so you may in a different part of the cycle.

If you wish to end up with 24 for film or DVD you should convert from the start and just edit in 23.98 sequence.
Adding 2:3 pulldown is easy. Removing it from an edited sequence is hard.