Creating black mattes for letterbox

I am trying to create black mattes to "letterbox" 4X3 framing. The original footage was framed for 16X9, but the film was transferred to tape "full aperture". I know I can do this in iMovieHD (ver.6.0.3) but was wondering if it possible in i Movie '08 (ver.7.1.4). Anyone have any suggestions?
thanks

Hi thomasa,
I do not see an option for conversion to B/W in Acrobat.
I looked under Edit > Preferences, Convert to PDF.
In the "Converting to PDF" list, I selected "Autodesk AutoCAD" and then clicked the "Edit Settings" button.
My recommendation is to convert to PDF and then use Adobe Acrobat XI Professional's Preflight tool to do the color conversion to B/W.
For instance, there is a built-in profile under "Digital printing and online publishing" that might work:
Digital printing (B/W).
I think there may be some trial and error involved.
You may want to post this question in the Acrobat "Printing & Prepress" forum.
Hope this helps,
Charlene

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> The CS3 Dreamweaver book says that the WHERE clause can
create a join for
two
> or more tables. The join was created, but the data is
repeating. I have
> searched the web and this forum and have not found the
answer.
>
> My Master page filters the recordset by Style No and
when a customer
clicks on
> a particular style, it sends him to the Detail page. All
the records are
> showing from all tables on the detail page from the
Dynamic List, except
they
> are showing multiple times (ex. Size table has 4 sizes
and Color table has
2
> colors - my Size Drop Down list is showing 8 options and
my Color Drop
Down
> List is showing 8 options) I have a Master Page with a
recordset pointing
to a
> Detail Page using the same recordset.
>
> Master page works perfectly.
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> SELECT products.itemID, products.category,
products.styleno,
products.name,
> products.description, products.ourprice,
products.imageTH, products.image,
> coloroption.color, sizeoption.size
> FROM products, coloroption, sizeoption
> WHERE category = 'chefcoats' AND
products.styleno=sizeoption.styleno AND
> products.styleno=coloroption.styleno
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>
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products.styleno,
products.name,
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>
> I tried using the GROUP BY on the detail page, but then
it only showed
one
> size and color from the dynamic drop down list. I tried
changing the
field
> name "styleno" in the other tables to be unique,
however, I was using the
table
> identifer. I tried using the JOIN command instead of the
WHERE clause and
that
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>
> On the detail page, the customer is supposed to click on
the Size box and
see
> sizes XSM - 6XL ONLY ONE TIME. and then be able to click
on the Color
option
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>

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          if (e.getSource() == cgreen) {
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