Special effect for 4x3 footage in a 16x9 timeline

I first saw WWE (wrestling) editors do this on their shows. They mix 4x3 and 16x9 footage together where instead of the 4x3 footage is zoomed in or has black bars on the sides, they duplicate the edges of the 4x3 just to fill in that space on the left and right and they blur it as well. It's a great trick and I was wondering if anyone knows of a filter that does this? I can manually do it in FCP, but just wondering...
Starting at :50, you can see some examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDUK0QdBKHI
Thanks!

That's a pretty easy way to do it although it's not exactly the same. How I did it was make a copy of V1 and paste it on V2 and V3. Apply blurs to both (V2 and V3) and move 1 to the left and 1 to the right. Then crop the left and right side of V1 accordingly.
With a filter...just a nice and easy drop.

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