Editing for multiple screens

hello all,
for a 3 channel video installation i need to edit preferably in one sequence; i need to see and here how the 3 channels interact.
hoped to do this by making a 3*720 canvas with 3 layers of video, so a bit like after effects, but this doesn't work!!
so my question is this; how could i do this? i mean is there a way to trick fcp somehow? or a good plugin? i've seen one for this a couple of years ago.. but cannot find it anymore.
my other route would be to first scale all the files to 33.3% and before rendering remove all the scales... but somehow i cannot believe that this cannot be done more proper!
thanks for all the tips!

thanks for the suggestions; looked into watchout, and looks very interesting but it's not what i'm looking for really.
i'm going to use 3 dvd players; if you buy them the same brand it is possible to fire the dvd's up almost in sync; will not be SPOT ON but works for what i'm going to do.
and i get the native video format idea, but what i've hoped for is that it would be possible to trick fcp somehow into a custom size with a, lets say, animation compression.. get all the material into the animation compression, get it on the timeline, cut&pase between middle left an right, and NOT need to render.
it seems to me this should be possible somehow; it works if you scale the the clips in the timeline to 33.3%..
afterwards copying the sequences 3 times, removing all the positioning data, and scaling back to 100% before render works but feels like a work around.
but guess this is my way to go!

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