Converting 16 x 9 footage/sequence to 4 x 3

Hi - I have a sequence that was shot in HDV 1080i60, but I need to convert it to 4 x 3 for uploading to the web.
What's the easiest way to do this? Please advise, thanks.

You can modify the presets in Compressor to resize and crop your video, and will show you the result in the preview window.
However, simply editing in 16:9 and cropping to 4:3 may not crop each shot as you prefer. Your other alternative is to drop the widescreen clips into a 4:3 sequence in FCP so that you can reframe each shot for better centering.
If you do this, youmay find it helpful to start with a native widescreen version, then create a 4:3 version from that - pasting or apple-dragging the clips in (apple dragging one sequence into another will drop in all the clips in the sequence. Once you have the wide clips in the 4:3 sequence, FCP will want to letterbox them by default. You can scale up the first clip and use past attributes to get that scale applied to all the clips before you start your manual pan & scan process.
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