Question about 12 bit audio

I have an in camera edit to do for school and I had planed to dub over the video with new audio. I can't because the audio is in 16bit. I thought maybe I could change the settings on my camera, capture the footage in Final Cut, then print to video (my camera now in 12 bit mode) and solve all my problems.
Final cut however seems to be automatically printing my audio as 12 bit. Is there any way I can change this. I have a 2 minute clip that I need to re-record as 12 bit audio so that I can do an audio dub.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Matt

1. Yes. Quicktime Pro, iTunes or third party audio editing software such as Peak can resample to 48khz/ 16 bit.
2. It would be best if you can get everything in the timeline to be 48khz/16 bit.
3. See #2.
Dope slap these fools who bring you 32khz stuff. Charge them MUCHO extra for your time.
x

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