Anamorphic capture preset

I have just started with FCP5.1.4. My goal was to transfer over 60 tapes of 8mm footage to digital. I bought a canon elura 100 and recorded the analog video to mini dv tapes. I then began capturing the footage using FCP. Over several months I worked away but also shot footage using the Canon. I shot this footage in widescreen. I selected preset info in FCP (easy setup) as "DV NTSC" using firewire which I thought was appropriate. However I must have changed it somewhere in the middle of my efforts to "DV-NTSC Anamorphic" maybe because I was capturing the widescreen footage (I honestly don't remember) My question is now that I am starting to create sequences I should be using the right settings and I do not know which captured media had the anamorphic settings for capture. Does this matter and is there a way to tell how the media files were captured? Any advice would be appreciated and thanks.

There will be a check in the anamorphic column of the browser for each clip to see what's set to be what... you can add this check to footage that is anamorphic but was captured 4:3...
Jerry

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QUOTE: "I know I have to recapture my clips using the anamorphic setting, but rummaging around the "advanced" section of "Audio/Visual Settings>Capture Presets>DV PAL 48 KHz>Compressor" I noticed that the settings were 'interlaced' and the aspect ratio was set to 4:3. Should I change these to 'progressive' and 16:9 so I can capture/edit/output my film to same quality as I shot it?"
- The 'Advanced' tab is actually in the 'Quicktime Settings' section not 'Compressor'. Do I take it that the 16:9 box in the 'Frame Size' area is for converting 4:3 on the tape to 16:9 in FCP rather than capturing 16:9 as shot on the tape?
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1) Sequence Preset?
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