Adding Letterbox to odd sized file

I have a movie that is 704 x 304 px
I need to add a letterbox so that FCP will read it.
The file is also 23.978fps which FCP is not accpeting, no matter if I change the sequence settings.
How do I add a letterbox that will preserver the 704x304 video to make it 720 x480 for dvd?
Thanks

This will probably take some playing with to make work.
Can you import this file into the browser?
If so, try creating a DV sequence with 23.98 fps. and drag the file from the browser into the canvas. How does it look. You may want to double click on the clip in the timeline and change the scale in the motion tab to 100%. This will create black bars at both the top and bottom and left and right side, but it should maintain maximum quality.

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