Imported clip appears in wrong ratio

I recorded from tv to a hard drive recorder, edited down to 3mins from 8hrs, put it on dvd to import into iMovieHD 5.0.2 to edit it further. Before importing to iMovie, I converted it to MP4 using Handbrake. The clip imports but is stretched tall and narrow, sound is fine. Can anyone tell me how to change the ratio or where I've gone wrong. Thanks

TV broadcasts are 4:3 (often letterboxed with black bands top and bottom).
You should have ripped the DVD to "DV". DV-NTSC in northern Amerika and Japan. DV-PAL in the rest of the world (with a few exceptions).
You should have created a DV project in iMovie (not DV-Widescreen).
Now, if you recording isn't a "normal" TV broadcast, but digital 16:9, the you should have converted to DV-widescreen and created a DV-Widescreen project in iMovie. (PAL vs NTSC as above.)

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