Well, when it comes to MULTICAM editing, FCP has ALWAYS required that all the camera angles be the same format. This is one of the basics of multiclipping. You can mix and match formats in FCP fine, but when it comes to multiclipping them, they need to be the SAME codec, frame rate, frame size, everything.
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