I finally got my hands on some footage from a project I consulted on a few months back. It was agreed to shoot the V1U in 24Pa mode. All of the footage was recorded on tape as well as the Sony Hard Drive system DR60. I created a 1440x1080/24p project in Vegas and was able to easily drag the m2t files into my timeline. The footage is upside down, not sure what that's about, but it's easy enough to remedy, I guess. The other thing is that the Vegas properties lists the footage as 29.97, which makes some sense, I guess, because it is 30 frames before the pulldown. Once on the timeline, the footage looks great and appears to be 24 unique frames per second. The questions I have are: why is the footage upside down? and should I expect Vegas to recognize the footage as 24p? Now these are copies of the files from the DR60, with all the folders in place, should I be using the import command in Vegas to string all the m2t's together and transfer to another hard drive? I've tried importing into Final Cut Pro using the Sony import plugin and it's supposed to strip out the extra frames automatically, there don't appear to be any settings to adjust, but once imported, Final Cut insists that the footage is 29.97 and if I force it onto a 24 frame timeline, there seems to be duplicate frames here and there. Same result with Premiere on the Mac, although it reads the m2t's natively.