Distorted video in iMovie '09 Version 8.0.6 (821)

We're doing a video project at school and have an issue with videos that we've taken with the iPad and iPhone. The iPad was held vertically and when the clips were imported into iMovie '09, the clips are visually distorted; ie the students on camera look squashed down and wider than normal. It's as if the vertical clip was squeezed down to fit into a horizontal space. When we view the same clip on a computer running iMovie '11 - Version 9.0.9 (1795) - the clips look fine - there is a black bar on each side of the vertically oriented window.
If it makes any difference, the older version of iMovie is on white Macbooks 2.26 Ghz - Core 2 Duo- 10.6.8, the newer version of iMovie is on 20 inch iMacs 2.26 Ghz Core 2 Duo running 10.7.5
I've not found a setting that lets me fix this. I've tried going to Project Properties-->Timing--->Fit video in frame, but this doesn't seem to make any difference.
Any thoughts about what I might try to do? We have different classes that have to use the different computers and I'd like to get them all to look right.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Mark

Hi Mark
Was just looking for the answer to this exact question and I just found something that worked for me so don't know if it might be of use to you or you might have already solved your problem!  Basically when I was in iMovie and I clicked to import movies from the computer into iMovie and I found the clip I wanted to import, there are a few options.  I think it asked which Event I wanted to add it to but most importantly it asked me what file size I wanted...I had originally been clicking Large because it advised me to because it reduces the file size...but just on a chance there I selected 'Full - Original' for size and it imported perfectly into iMovie in it's original vertical form!
Hope this helps!
Bianca

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