How to render in Final Cut Express without widescreen and black bars?

Hi there,
I have been having problems when importing my xbox 360 gameplay into FCE, when it is imported it says it needs to be "rendered" when I complete the render the gameplay turns into widescreen with black bars on top and bottom.
Watch this video on youtube and you can see what I mean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Wi0hDq-iU
I have searched and searched on the net but found nothing useful that could help me.
So any tips info would be greatly appreciated, thanks Chris.

Do you mean size format and time length? If not please explain for me.
If so, the original file size, length and format that is going into Steamclip is 200mb, is an mp4 and goes for 2:12 minutes.
Then after I convert this file it becomes a mov file and the size is increased to 1.02 GB does this seem like I am doing this right in MPEG Streamclip?
I only just got FCE two days ago so I don't really know how to check the item properties in FCE, could you please tell me how?"
Thanks, Chris.

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