Import photos to FCP Images stretch out

While I import photos to FCP, it stretch the images, I have been change the images size to 720x480, and adjust setting to 16:9 or 4:3, the problem still there, look like wide screen images fitting into the full screen.
any help will be appreciate.
Tks
Pai

Don't make your photos 720x480, because FCP will stretch them.
Make your photos another size, hopefully a larger size, and then FCP will see them as square pixels and so will then not make them fill the screen.

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