Re: Can I control this?

Well, it took me a few reads but I think I got it. Here's one remaining question that I couldn't figure out from your detailed response:

When my cameraman is shooting his Panasonic HDX 900 camera and recording on Firestore, the readout on the Firestore screen shows the format as 60p. But when I bring that material in to FCP, it shows up in the browser as 29.97. I understand from your explanation HOW that can happen, due to the rp188 frame flagging, interpreted by FCP. But I don't understand WHY it happens. Since the video is actually recorded at 60p I would expect it to import at that frame rate (or 59.94). I'm doing nothing that I know of to specify that I want a conversion to 29.97 but that's what is showing in the browser. Can you tell me why? Actually, that frame rate is fine with me but I'd like to understand why it's happening.