Final Cut Pro Image to Scale

Hi I am currently editing a video of a power point presentation and I have the images from the presentation sitting in iPhoto ready to be edited over the filmed footage. I know how to add the photo, but when I do, the picture takes up the middle of the screen, with the original video still poking out to the top-bottom-right-left of it. Any ideas how to get  the image to fill up the whole of the screen/ black out the original bits, or would it be best to separate the sound from video and go from there?

It depends on the layout of the slides and the frame's aspect ratio. The easiest way would be to select the slides  on the Timeline (which I assume are connected clips) and in the Video pane of the Inspector>Spatial Conform choose Fill. If that doesn't produce the desired result, you may have to insert a generator between the two layers.
Russ

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