I agree. Don’t bother shoo

I agree. Don’t bother shooting in 24p. These days, there’s way too much hype on trying to achieve the “film look” and not enough emphasis on learning fundamentals. Do yourself a favor and shoot 30i like Coreece said. In the future, if you are working on a production that has a budget and someone is making you shoot 24p, then shoot 60p and apply a 2:3 pulldown.

And are you editing .m2v? You shouldn’t be editing mpeg video. It should be in the NTSC format.