Custom Resolutions in iMovie?

As far as I can see, my (maximum) output resolution is set when creating a project (DV/HDV/Mpeg4/etc.). MPEG-4 seems to default to 640x480. Is there any way to change this to whatever I like?
Situation is: I have clips with different resolutions here (e.g. 977x786). I'd like to import them to iMovie, add some text/effects/foo and then export them as MPEG-4 -- in the original quality (resolution). Is this possible? If not, what is the best approach...?

iMovie is a video editor, so the resolution of each type of iMovie project is fixed by the the project type. They vary in size from 640x480 (MPEG-4, with a 4:3 aspect ratio) to 1090x1080 (HD 1080i, with a 16:9 aspect ratio). As a movie/photo is imported to the project it is changed to that project's size. If the aspect ratio of the item doesn't match the project, iMovie adds black borders to preserve the original aspect ratio of the item.
The Timeline of the project can be exported to any size QuickTime movie you want, of course, using iMovie's Expert export mode. To avoid distorting the image, the exported movie would normally use the same aspect ratio as the project.
Karl

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