Getting Blackmagic Intensity to display 16:9 on 4:3 monitor & other questio

Hi,
I have a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card I have set up for use with FCP. It is connected to a 4:3 monitor. I am mainly working on 16:0 projects and they are coming out stretched to fill whole monitor. I used to use it with Sony Vegas and it put black borders top/bottom so the 16:9 image was not stretched. Is there a way of setting this up on FCP or in Mac Settings?
Also If I set Blackmagic as Video preview I seem to have to use it as Audio also, not a big problem but is there a way around this?
Relating to above is there a way of getting Mac OS to use Blackmagic card as default audio device?
Regards,
Ben
Ben

It's not set in FCP... use the Pref Panel in System Preferences
System Preferences>Blackmagic>Processing>Select output processing...
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