I shoot film all year and transfer to mini dv with a SIMO DUB (this is what you might want to tell your lab) of digi beta. I personaly opt to not use cinema tools seeing that it is not completely nececary. Thats just my take on it, I know that every one is doing it but I’ve produced five films in the last two years that have not had the pulldown. The reason being is because all if the film you shoot is 24fps but it is transfered to 29.97fps. The only problem is that when you are cutting you can from time to time run in to a glitch if you make a cut on what is called a jitter frame. This is when your viewing on a video monitor(which I hope you plan on doing) and when the footage is pause the frame looks possesed.
So just cut away in fcp, make your movie but dont do any color correction or effects yet because you might lose them when you online. Once you finish the cuts make the media offline and export all the files to your buddies computer and batch capture all of your reels back in which therefore will reconnect your media giving you an online version. Believe me there’s always gonna be some boundries and obsticals but this is the basic idea. And by the way cinema tool is an awsome feature and you should definatly use it for safety, like I said I just choose not to. Good luck.