Onlining p2 footage to dvcpro hd in final cut pro hd

so i'm gearing up to shoot with two cameras: the panasonic hvx900 and the hvx200. trying to figure out a workflow. i want to end up doing two things: using only dvcpro HD masters in the online (which would require transferring the uncompressed P2 files out to tape) and editing the P2 footage, along with the DVCPRO HD footage, at standard def in the timeline. so...
1) do i have to first transfer the P2 footage to the DVCPRO HD tapes and then do a downres capture from that? or is there a way that i could use the timecode from the P2 footage to make it through to the online using a different source (the DVCPRO HD tape) as a master, which would theoretically have the same timecode as the P2 footage?
2) can you even do downres ingesting? or does it have to be a capture? if it's not possible, then it seems like it's not even worth it to try to save time through ingesting.

hmm. the issue is that we are doing a doc and it's going to be huge, size wise, so we'd like to offline edit in standard def. so we can't really do the edit and be done thing. but we're trying to determine whether or not it's possible to capture from one format (P2 card files) and online using a copy of that P2 file with the same timecode transferred to a tape. or whether it's better to just transfer it to the tape first and then capture into the session from that. it could save us time if it were possible to ingest the p2 files in full HD for later transferring to the tapes, as well as converting to standard def for the offline editing. so i guess the big question is, assuming we get the right version of final cut, is it possible to do a downres ingest? and does final cut pro hd not do ingesting? thanks.

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