FCE Widescreen?

Hi,
I'm a bit of a new user to FCE as oppose to other video editing programs, and I was wondering how I make the Canvas into a widescreen 16:9 format so when I export my videos there are no black bars on the top and bottom of the video during playback in Quicktime.
Thanks,
Alex

how did u do it ? : )
jojos

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