Importing wide screen results in Pilarboxing

Hi, I am importing some widescreen QT movies into iMovie, the new project was selected as DV wide screen, and the individual movies are also widescreen, but once the QT movies are imported, the result is a widescreen with pilarboxing (black bars on the sides) and therefore the image is distorted. How can I solve this?
Thanks

When you start the project, in preferences, UNcheck the box 'automatic pillarboxing'.

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