Adjusting frame size question

Could someone help me with something?
I’m downloading video from a Canon Vixia HF 10 into Final Cut Express for editing. Then I'm exporting that video/movie into iDVD. When I pop it into a drop zone on the main theme page in iDVD the movie doesn’t fill out the entire space available in that drop zone. It has black space above the movie just like a movie does when played in wide screen mode on your tv. Are there settings in fce where I can adjust the movie so it won’t play in wide screen mode, and thus completely fill up in the drop zone, or is this some that needs to be addressed in iDVD?
Thank you ever so much,
Scott

You could select a piece of your video, double-click it so it opens in the Viewer, click the Motion tab in the Viewer, and adjust the scale slider. You could then export that clip and use it as your drop zone. I say to use only a piece, because
a) the longer the clip in your drop zone, the less space on the disc you'll have for your movie.
b) putting your whole finished movie into the drop zone looks bad.

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Fran (luvsfotos)
> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:22:36 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Frame size discrepancies in project settings?
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