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I have an edited project done with FCE 3.5, in 720x480, but the footage is widescreen, so I get the black bars above and below. Is there any way that I can "fix" this in FCE4, making the height bigger to eliminate the black above and below the video? I copy a clip and drop it into a track that's 853x480, but I still get the black bars. I can't find any way to "expand" the existing edited footage, even in a new track, even though I can right click on the track and "Open in editor" and it comes up right.
I know I could rebuild the whole project from scratch, but I put a lot of work into it...
Yeah, I know I messed up, but is there any way to fix this?
Thanks,
Doug Dye

You edited it incorrectly. There should be no black bars top and bottom.
How are you making a track that's 853x480? The sequence should 720x480 anamorphic. When you copy the clips and paste them into the anamorphic sequence they should come in but be distorted. Select the clips in the timeline and use the Edit>Remove Attributes function. Check Distort and click OK.

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