FCP X not recognising Anamorphic clips

I have several thousand clips captured as PAL SD anamorphic
They were captured from Digibeta using the AJA Kona Preset Prores 720x576 Anamorphic.
When imported into FC X, there seems to be no way of telling it how to display those clips
correctly. I need to apply + 33% on X in tranform to display correctly.
My Project is custom set to 720x576 Anamorphic but the clips do not conform
to that size in the timeline. Changing the frame size in QT also has no effect.
Short of a trip to Compressor, has anyone devised a way to get imported
anamorphic clips to display correctly in X?
I can't be the only one struggling with this!

I've tried to get it to recognize prores anamorphic without success, just like you. The only way I've been able to get FCPX to properly recognize anamorphic footage is for it to be using the DV codec. I have to think this is a bug and/or missing feature that Apple will fix in a future release, but you should definitely provide feedback to make the request.

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First trash your preferences. They've probably been corrupted by now.
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FCP 6.0.2 (compared to previous version) comes with the latest improvement and support for AVCHD.
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