Nikon SLR video to multi clip editing

I did a multi cam video shoot for fun and one of my camera's was a SLR Nikon 300s. I recorded it onto a CF card & it was recorded as AVI files. I imported the AVI file into the browser along with the other video which was shot on sony z5 cams. When I click on make multi clip I get a warning that the Frame rates don't match. and I notice the Nikon is shot at 24fps with a frame size of 640x424.
OK, I thought, so I exported out the AVI as a QT file (exported both from FCP and QT player) with a setting of dv/dvcpro-ntsc best quality, 29.97 fps, aspect ratio 4:3 and 720x480 dimensions.
When the file is finished and I import the new QT file into FCP browser it still doesn't open a multi clip. Seems the browser fps setting is reading 30fps even though it was set to 29.97fps in export.
Question is... any idea how to get this file to be 720 x 480 with a 29.97 fps setting to show up in the browser?

Well...your Z5 is an HDV camera...HDV, 1440x1080. That still doesn't match the DV 720x480. They need to match EXACTLY...in every possible way.
Or...make life easy and get PluralEyes to sync this up. No need for FCPs multicam.
Shane

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I created a sequence using multiple clips and did all my colour corrections. Then I created a new sequence by dragging on new items, sequence is now green. Enabled Mulit-cam editing and started the process.
After i finished, I noticed two clips have blown highlights. Looking at original source I accidentally add two levels. I tried deleting the blown highlight clips and replace them with the original, this did not work too well.
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