16:9 footage shows in Canvas  with letterboxing!

Hi, I shot footage in 16:9 and on three of the Sequences I created in the editing process, it shows just fine. But on the first Sequence, I probably didn't create the sequence in Anamorphic, so the footage shows in a 4:3 window, and the image is letterboxed. I thought, 'OK, I'll just copy the clips and paste them in a new anamorphic sequence', but the result is bad; it is still letterboxed and spread unnaturally wide to fit a 16:9 window. Do I have to start all my editing over again?
A follow-up question. On a different Sequence there is a black strip on the left side of all the images. I have no idea what that is all about.
Thanks for any help, Bob

Select the clips and use the Edit>Remove Attributes function to reset the distort value. Any motion effects will probably have to be redone.
Can you post a screen shot of the problem you're seeing?

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