IMovie forcing pillarboxing on 16:9 video clip

I have a DV Widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) project and I am trying to import a 16:9 aspect ration video clip that I made in some animation software. I have "Automatic DV Pillarboxing and Letterboxing" deselected in iMovie's preferences, BUT everytime I import the 16:9 video into iMovie, iMovie insists on squishing it horizontally and adding pillarboxing to the sides of the video clip so that the video is distorted and useless.
How can I fix this?

That worked, thanks. MPEG Streamclip has saved the day for me a few times in the past when Apple products weren't cutting it so I am glad it's out there.
iMovie was jealous at first and wasn't playing nice with the clips - when I added transitions, iMovie was cutting parts of the different clips in here and there where I hadn't edited. The solution was deleting the transitions I had added, quitting iMovie and starting it again then adding the clips again after the restart.
Anyway, thanks for the tip Matti!

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