Imovie cropping issues version 10.0.2

I was watching tutorial videos on Imovie. Once i came across the cropping section after I cropped 1 clip EVERY clip I upload now is automatically cropped. I also try to manually crop it back to orignal height and width but it doesnt fit the video right... Anyone know how to fix this?
Thank you

So my problem is that all my film content I have looks fine, but once I put it up in the section to combine clips its cropped and looks like this above. If I change the settings to fit then there are black bars on the left and right side. It DIDNT do this at first until I initially messed with the cropping options. I would try to crop it back but it doesnt scale back to fit the original video. I've been googling options and popular feedback is to mess with project properties and change the aspect ration but my Imovie does NOT have that option. (Most of my video clips are coming from quicktime screen recorder right now)

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