I have a 4x3 clip that is being stretched into a 16x9 clip by Final Cut --

Hi --
I have a project I am editing that requires combining footage shot in HD 16x9 and SD 4x3. The settings I have on Final Cut are set for HD 16x9 footage, and I simply blow up the SD footage to fit the window, with pillar boxes on the sides. This has worked fine with every clip except for one.
This particular video clip that a friend of mine shot on her laptop webcam in 4x3 format is for some reason now being stretched into a 16x9 aspect ratio when imported into Final Cut. She did it on her computer (a PC) in Windows Media Format and I converted it to a QuickTime clip without any problem. The converted quicktime clip opens in QT at its proper 4x3 ratio (960x720) but when I import that QT clip into Final Cut and then put it into the canvas it stretches it into a 16x9 aspect ratio. I cannot get it to stop doing this and I don't know why.
Any suggestions?

The converted quicktime clip opens in QT at its proper 4x3 ratio (960x720)
That's not the pixel aspect ratio for 4:3 which is 720 x 480.
Your clip is being interpreted as Anamorphic. 960 x720 non square pixels = 1280 x 720 square pixels.
So FCP scales it accordingly.
Click the clip in the Browser. Press command and 9. Locate Anamorphic in the list and click on the check mark to remove it. Rescale under the Motion tab to fit your frame.

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Daniil. wrote:
I am putting together videos and photos made during one of the trips, and I have background music running throughout the whole movie, but I want to fade this music during some parts of the video to hear the original speech/sounds of it, and then increase the volume of background music again. I know that in iMovie it is done in a few simple steps, and it almost automatically fades the music in/out. But I cannot find any similar options in Final Cut Pro X, how do you do it there? (I have 10.1.2 version)
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