Import widescreen quality video exports not widescreen, cropped, low qualty

I ripped a dvd vob files to mp4. Each mp4 is high quality and widescreen. I import them to iMovie and they are still high quality and widescreen (the clips in the bottom). When i add them to the project they are no longer widescreen, the left and right sides are cut off, and quality is much worse. I have tried widescreen 16:9 and 4:3 in the project properties, but they don't help. 4:3 is worse of course.
So does anyone know where do i change settings so imovie keeps same quality and aspect ratio of files in the project to the imported clips? Is there some advanced setting somewhere? There is nothing in project properties except the widescreen/4:3 option and i cant believe this is all we get. I don't understand why iMovie is cropping my clips and reducing quality. The output .mov file is even bigger than the 4 x mp3 files added up!
Thanks a lot

Sorry should have been more clear... I am not combining the two different files, so they are not in the same project at the same time. I tried importing them seperately to see if there was a difference. I think one may have been converted to mp4 using Video Monkey and the other HandbrakeCLI. Cant remember which for each video. I have different formats because I have been trying different methods of conversion to find the best ones because I have other .mp4s from home made AVIs from a DV camera which I just cannot get all of them into iMovie, iTunes and iPhoto (reported on another thread!).
But for some reason it is working now as stated. Do you think if changing Project settings I need to re-import the videos? I deleted the copies from the project, then deleted from the Events, then re-imported the same .mp4 files (both of the ones I listed) then re-added to the Project and it was widescreen and high quality as I wanted. So I wonder if I originally had 4:3 then changed to 16:9 but needed to re-import them all??? OR I have made a complete b*lls up and imported the wrong low quality file in the first place, but am sure I could not have done that.
As for the ripping, I used MacTheRipper. The DVD probably is copywrite protected, its just Rambo. Its a purchased DVD so wanted to put it on the Mac in my library to play with AirPlay (am new to all this so experimenting). I dont particularly care if this breaks the license as my belief is I paid for the DVD so I can put it on my computer to watch there rather than the disc everytime. As long as I dont give the copy to anyone else.
Thanks for your advice though, appreciate it and will try it out next time I spend time on this (which has been far too long than is necessary!). As stated cant believe the issues I am having with iMovie for what should be something plain simple. Not just this issue but the other issue I reported in another thread is actually driving me far more nuts than this one!
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