Aspect problems

I have imported some wide screen handycam movies into IMovie.  The clips are fine and all content is visible however when I add them to a project the top gets cropped to the degree that I am cutting subjects heads.  I have checked the project properties and that is set to 16.9 correctly.  What am I doing wrong.

You camera footage is shot with a retangular pixel aspect ratio, and FCPX is exporting the file with square pixels. Try changing the settings of your project to 1280x720, and change the Spacial Conform setting of each clip from your camera to "Fit".

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