Footage being scaled on timeline - looks aweful!

Can't find answers in the forums so I'm hoping you may have run into this at some point.
Two camera shoot and here are my settings for each in FCP:
Cam A (HMC150 shooting at 720p): 1280 x 720, Compressor is Apple ProRes 422, Pixel Aspect is Square, Field Dominance is None
Cam B (XL2 shooting in stand. def. anamorphic): 720 x 480, Compressor is DV/DVCPRO-NTSC, Pixel Aspect is NTSC-CCIR 601, Field Dominance is Lower (Even)
My timeline settings are the same as my Cam A.
Cam A looks great, the problem is Cam B looks god awful! When I drop Cam B footage on the timeline, it changes the aspect ratio to (-)18.52 and scales the footage to 177.78.
If I change the aspect ratio footage to 0, it doesn't look quite "widescreen". If I change the scale to 0, the shot only fills up about 2/3 of the screen (maybe less). The footage already looks blah due to low lighting but I suspect the scale blowing it up is making it worse.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!

the problem is Cam B looks god awful! ..... it scales the footage to 177.78 .... If I change the scale to 0, the shot only fills up about 2/3 of the screen (maybe less)
Yes, that's what happens when you scale more than about 6%; it looks awful. Have you considered converting the HD footage to SD for editing?
-DH

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