Fixing Smartphone Video

Hello!
I am making a video for a school project. I filmed everything on a Nexus S. When I imported my footage to FCPX I noticed big black borders on the left and right side of the video. How can I change the video to be wider so the black space goes away?
Thanks!

Okay ... do this ...
With your video clip in the timeline working area, click once on the clip to select it. Then go to the Inspector window in the upper right quadrant of your display. (If the inspector window is not open, click on the little " i " icon midway down the right hand side of your screen and it should open up). Click on the Video tab of the inspector window. Scroll down in that video tab area until you get to something called Spatial Conform. Under this heading should be a field called Type. If it is not visible, go to the right of the Spatial Conform heading until a little "Show" designation becomes visible then click on it to show the Type field. At the little arrow things to the right of the Type designation, click to open up a list with the choices Fit, Fill or None. Click Fit or Fill seeing which one better makes your video look in your preview window.
The bars should go away with one or both of these. It will make your image a little larger, but honestly the resolution of the phone camera will be your biggest contributor to bluriness. Things look great when the screen is small, but blow it up on a projector screen and it's not as good. Anyway, hopefully this helps. Remember, you have to click on your video clip in the timeline before any of this in the Inspector window will work for you. Best wishes.
stephen

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