Inserting 4x3 PowerPoint slides into 16:9 video

I'm doing a multicam edit (two different camera angles) of a lecture.  The speaker used many slides, all of which are 4x3 format and have to remain in that aspect ratio.  (The slides are full of photos and images that can't be stretched or altered).
I've exported the PowerPoint as individual .jpg images, 4x3.
Right now, I'm inserting the slides throughout the video on a separate video track, then adding another track with a solid black background underneath (so that the lecturer doesn't appear on the sides of the screen underneath the slide).  It's time consuming because I'm cutting back & forth between two camera angles and also the slides.
Is there a faster way to do this, so that the slides fill the screen without having to manually add a background each time?

One other thing I do when dealing with this situation is to move the slide image to one side of the screen then resize the speaker so he/she is in a window on the black side of the screen that overlaps the slide image slightly.
Just watching a static slide for a period of time can be deadly dull.
Have fun.
x
ps - I'd suggest exporting the powerpoint as tif files rather than jpg. FCP finds them easier to digest.

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