FCP Canvas and Viewer

My FCP canvas and viewer appears to be showing my 16:9 footage in a letterbox format - not the same as usual - normally when I make the canvas full screen the footage will fill the screen - but now it is letter boxed, if you see what I mean!?
I am using FCP 5.0.4
Can anyone help please?

Widescreen mode can mean either letterboxed or anamorphic. Select a clip in the browser (or in the timeline for that matter) and hit command-9. Is the anamorphic check box, checked? If not, your original material is letterboxed and you've either got to live with it, or enlarge your images which will lose an enormous amount of quality. If your clips are anamoprhic, you've got to check the anamorphic check box in your sequence settings, then select all your clips, control click and choose remove attributes:basic motion. Should do the trick.
This can be avoided by making sure your sequence settings match your clip settings BEFORE you start editing.

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