Different Capture Presets for Multicam editing

I shot a live music event with 3 cameras over a period of 5 weeks. Four of those weeks, all the material was captured as 4:3.
However, one night a friend with a more professional camera attended, and I borrowed his to use as one of the 3 cameras. This camera shot 16:9 (we opted not to shoot 24p on it so that it would match the other cameras), and now I'm wondering how I should import my footage if 2 of the cameras were 4:3 and this one was 16:9. Since the rest of the project was shot 4:3, I think it should remain that size.
Do i change the preset when I capture the widescreen footage?
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

What kind of camera was it? Was it HDV? If it was,
capture using the downconvert feature, and (at least
the Sony's offer) crop the sides off.
If it wasn't, well, you're not going to be too happy
with the quality. Capture it as widescreen, then
blow it up in your 4x3 sequence to fill the frame.
You can either stretch it vertically or both ways,
which will lose resolution.
Need to think about these things a little more before
you shoot. I hate when people say "We'll fix it in
post." I'm more of a "fix it in pre" kind of guy.
I actually wasn't anticipating having this camera there that night, but when it showed up, I decided using it would be better than just having 2 cameras.
I don't think it was HDV, we used miniDV tapes. So I think I will have to do what you recommended, capture it widescreen and then make it 4:3. I'm hoping that since this camera was much higher quality than the other cameras I was using that this will compensate for having to adjust the image after the capture.
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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