Using 16x9 footage in a 4x3 Sequence

I've got a goofy combination of ideas & aspects here...
The finished product is to be 4x3 NTSC DV... but is to be letterboxed onscreen (the client is trying to match the look of some other piece.) While shooting, rather than taping off the monitor to show where the letterboxing would crop the 720x486 image, we switched the camera (Sony DVCPro25) and monitor into 16x9 mode. That way the client could see exactly how the letterboxing would look on an SD monitor as we shot it.
Now...
I'll be capturing the footage from a DVCPro deck via Firewire. What capture preset should I use in order to have the image retain its 16x9 aspect without having to manually scale it down to look letterboxed in a 4x3 DV NTSC sequence?

Zod wrote:
we switched the camera (Sony DVCPro25) and monitor into 16x9 mode.
You probably mean DVCAM (since DVCPro is Panasonic).
I'll be capturing the footage from a DVCPro deck via Firewire. What capture preset should I use in order to have the image retain its 16x9 aspect without having to manually scale it down to look letterboxed in a 4x3 DV NTSC sequence?
Capture it as DV25 Anamorphic, and when you drop it in your 4:3 sequence, it will auto-size to fit.
tim

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