How to conform your footage to the proper frame rate

My last project was shot at 60 frames per second, or twice the rate of the standard broadcast rate (29.97). This is done in order to slow down the footage in the post production stage to give it a dramatic cinematic effect. There are two ways of achieving this in the post production phase... a good way, and a not so good way. Let's start with the not so good way. You could capture all of your clips into final cut pro and drag them into your timeline and then manually change the speed to 50%... half the speed (60 frames to 30). Although this technically will play out at the same speed, it will not have the constant fluidity that changing the frame rate will give it. Alright... the good way. The good way is only possible with a program called Cinema Tools that comes bundled in the Final Cut Studio package, so for those FC Express folks, the not so good way will have to do for now. Right click on the clips that you want to conform to 30 frames, and open them with Cinema Tools (Cinema Tools will only allow up to 20 movie clips to be open at one time). Simply click the conform button and tell it to conform to 29.97 frames to be exactly half the speed of the original video. You may also conform the clip to 24 frames if you are mixing it with other 24 frame footage or prefer the stroby look, just note that it will play back even slower than half speed. Now wherever you open the clip, it will play at the new frame rate... Done!