FCP Oddity - HD footage sometimes scale at 100% - sometimes 225%

I am having a final cut pro oddity happening.
Shooting from the same 2 cameras and capturing the footage exactly the same way and sometimes the footage in the sequence is appearing at 100% and sometimes it is appearing at 225% and therefore needs to be rendered.
There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to when it is 100% and when it is 225% even in the same sequence timeline. One camera will be at one scale and the other will be at the other.
Any ideas as to why this is happening?
The only adverse effect is high-speed motion that is scaled at 225% is outputting onto DVD with a slight choppy motion.
Thanks

I've had that happen - let me ask you a few questions.
1 - Is this a discrepancy between footage from the different cameras? OR, is it happening to footage from the same camera.
2 - are you noticing this the moment you drag(or insert) the footage on the timeline?
3 - can you tell me the properties of the capture footage from both cameras and the sequence settings.
(In my experience, this has happened when I dropped 1080 footage on a 720 timeline, and I didn't know that the 1080 footage had been shot at 1080 - or, I just forget which camera shot at which. - the 1080 footage will not self scale to 720 - it will be blown up)
Let me know what you come up with.
pJ

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