Color crops my footage.

How do I stop color cropping my footage? I'm working on 1080P DVC Pro HD footage in Final Cut (Pal) and when I send it to color it automatically trims off the sides of my footage.
I've searched the manual and the web for a solution but can't find one.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the reply.
The footage is 25 frames per second if that helps.
my first port of call was to the project settings. I have it set to 1920 * 1080 HD.
I've tried all the other options and they are all worse.
I've played around in the Geometry room as well, but the missing edges don't seem to exist inside color.
Maybe the problem is coming from Final Cut? I'm using the send feature as the programs are on the same computer.
The original footage was 16:9 aspect ratio. In Final Cut I put a matte on to make it 2.35:1 (Obviously without "baking" it I wasn't expecting the matte to go across, I was just going to redo it.)
But a good part of the width is disappearing.
One thing I have just noticed which is starnge, is that once the footage is re-imported to FCP, although the footage is still too slim, if I check the "drop shadow" box in the motion control panel, more of the image will appear although it's distorted.
Confused...

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