How to record iSight video in widescreen format

Does anyone know the answer to this? It seems bizarre that although when recording video in iMovie the video window itself is in 16:9 format, the actual video is still in 4:3. Are there any video settings that i've missed? It's driving me nuts.

HD2600 Hater wrote:
Does anyone know the answer to this? It seems bizarre that although when recording video in iMovie the video window itself is in 16:9 format, the actual video is still in 4:3. Are there any video settings that i've missed? It's driving me nuts.
You can crop the 4:3 clip to fit the widescreen format:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iMovie/8.0/en/11603.html
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