720 x 480 footage mistakenly put on a 960 x 720 timeline

Hey Guys,
I shot a wedding in SD and imported into FCP. The first clip I always drag to the timeline and FCP always adjusts the timeline to my footage. (I'm real bad at forgetting to go back when I'm shooting SD.) So I cut this whole wedding and it looks great. Does not appear to be stretched or otherwise or I would have noticed right off. Well I end up checking the settings and the settings are set to 960 x 720 - HD Pixel Ratio. So then I copied and pasted the whole timeline into a 720 x 480 timeline yet the footage remained 960 x 720 in the viewer. Here's my question finally, should I just go ahead and finish cutting the show and export it out at SD 720 x 480 or will I run into problems?
If I will run into problems what is the best way to get it adjusted without losing any work, res, etc? Thanks for any assistance on this.

Simply select all the clips in the new sequence timeline (the correct format timeline), right click and select Remove Attributes>Distort.
This will remove the scaling that FCP added to fix your original screwup.
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