Best way to convert DV/NTSC clips to HDV1080i60?

I was hoping somebody could give me some advice on converting clips shot with a standard DV cam to HDV. I normally shoot with an HDV cam and work with native HDV footage in my projects but was hoping to incorporate some clips taken with a standard DV cam into something I'm currently working on. I was planning to use Compressor to convert the clips and then import the new clips into FCP5, but I'm not sure if this is the cleanest way or not.
As part of the process I think I also need to crop the original clip so that it doesn't stretch horizontally when filling the 16:9 aspect ration from 4:3. I assume I can do this with Compressor but I've never done cropping with it and I'm a bit confused as how much to crop (the 720x480 pixel count always confuses the issue in my head).
Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot!

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