Shooting 30P was discussed, but the client prefers the look of 23.98.
I ran a pulldown test going from 23.98 to 29.97P last night in Final Cut, and seems to work fine, as Rafael suggested. It’s arguably not as smooth as interpolating to 29.97i, but it’s still relatively smooth, and I think the difference is negligible for this project. Final Cut does the pulldown pretty quick, so time spent doing the conversion is minimal.
But I definitely appreciate the opinion!
Thanks,
-Aj