Question about Aspect Ratios

I believe that the 'wide screen' view popular on LCD televisions these days is a 16:9 aspect ratio with 1280x720 video pixels also being the same ratio on a computer screen. This is opposed to the more traditional 4:3 aspect ratio for what has been standard video in the past.
Here's a reference I found about working with the 16:9 screen ratio in FCP, which, I hope, means that it is also possible to work with this format in FCE:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/understanding_169.html
Is there a way to produce this 'wide screen' format in FCE? If so, how do you set it up and see it displayed in viewer and canvas?
TIA,
Ken

I am disappointed in my shooting with the 7D, but I'll bet I have all of my settings wrong. I used a top quality 17-55 2.8 lens and mounted on a solid video tripod. What I expected was crisp sharp image quality and got something less. Maybe I am expecting too much, but most likely, I need to get my settings right, especially to get highest quality out from StreamClip. I wrote down and will use what you gave me in another thread: 1.) Apple Intermediate Codec, 2.) AVCHD, 3.) 1920x1080:60.
I'm sticking with those settings so now I need to figure out how to set the camera so I am recording at 1920x1080 in the first place. That is the area where I think the problem was that gave me the fuzzy video here:
http://vthumb.ak.fbcdn.net/vthumb-ak-sf2p/v50581/177/82/1485954530/t148595453015633510121281345.jpg

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