Achieving "panorama" look for 4:3 footage in 16:9 frame

Question

I'm doing a corporate video which needs to screen 16:9 anamorphic, but the cameraman shot 4:3 footage. The director doesn't want effectsy/graphic stuff to fill up the frame nor does he want me to blow up the picture 33% then crop, as it would mean a loss of resolution. He suggests I create an effect that simulates the "panorama" setting on HD televisions, which basically takes the about 10% of the left-most and right-most parts of the frame and stretches it to fill up the"pillar box".
I've been trying to do this by exporting the clips to Motion, duplicating each clip twice, cropping the center layer 10% on each side, and cropping the duplicated layers, one as left-most 10%, one as right-most 10% and then stretching them to fill up the frame. It is an extremely time-consuming process, as I'm not sure how to anchor these 2 layers when I stretch them, so they need to be precisely re-positioned. Given I have over 50 clips to do, I just wanted to know if there were some simpler way I could achieve this "panorama" effect, especially if I could do it in FCP.

Answer 1

Thanks, Steve and Moobile. I did download the plug-in from TMTS - looks like there's a lot of cool stuff. However I did try it, and as the site developer claims, it is still an in-process tool, and I find that since I can't adjust the center of the frame, the plug-in still being a one-size-fits-all tool, it's not quite usable for my problem. But thanks again much for pointing me to the link.