Properly pasting 720x480 footage from a 1080i sequence onto a 720x480 seq..

I usually edit 1080i footage so I have my FCP sequence settings set up accordingly, but when a friend asked me to edit a tape of 720x480 footage I forgot to change the settings. Now I am almost done editing and need to figure out how to properly paste the 720x480 footage from the 1080i sequence onto a new 720x480 sequence. I need to do this so I can export as a 720x480 qt.
I say properly because I already tried it but on the new 720x480 sequence the image now looks really stretched out. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you!

Well there really is not any attributes to remove because I did not make any changes to the clips myself, but for the sake of solving this issue I also tried checking all the attributes and then individually as well.
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