I'm not too familiar with Xpress Pro, mostly use Premiere Pro, so bear with me. I'm working on Xpress Pro 5.6. It handles 23.976 timelines well from what I saw and I had no problem editing a few test clips with 24p-A footage shot with the XL2.

Only thing is, when I try to crash record back to tape, in the Digital Cut tool, I can choose a 23.976 output format, but alongside there's a mention saying "Output to NTSC with continuous 2:3 pulldown. Standard format for NTSC film-based television broadcast".

I don't want to export with a 2:3 pulldown. I want to export back with a 2:3:3:2 pulldown, just like the original footage, so that if need be I can re-import again as true 24p footage without the permanent interlacing artifacts introduced by a 2:3 pulldown.

What am I missing? How do you export 24p-advanced footage back to MiniDV tape in Xpress Pro?

Haven't found any precisions on this matter in the Avid help file.

Thanks for the help.