Downconverting 1080 material for use in a 720p project

One of the DP's on a current project that has so far been shot entirely at 720p 60 (on the panasonic varicam) wants to shoot some material with the Sony CineAlta 350. First I told him that I didn't want to mix formats and he said the Sony shot 720. When I challeneged him on that, he said he didn't realize we were shooting 720. He's shot 2 days already of stuff for us at 720. Doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. If we shoot with the Sony CineAlta 350, how does the quality compare to the varicam 720 and will the downconvert to 720 cause problems?
Thanks as always.

Whoops, I misread your message earlier. Sorry!
Cameron
Message was edited by: Cameron Jewell

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ZLONG_TEXT              1                1              0
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Records Read:                   1
Transactions Written:         1
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1 /SAPDMC/LTXTH                   1MVKE      MATERIAL1                                                                   0001E
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ZLONG_TEXT                  1                       1                            0
Transactions Read          1
Records Read:                1
Transactions Written:      1
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MATNR                    MATNR                         MATERIA1
LTEXT                     LTEXT                            SALES TEXT FOR Material MATERIAL1
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Successfully Transferred Long Texts: 1
Non-Transferred Long Texts:                0
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