Video Squished Vertically When Imported.

Howdy!
This is my first go with iMovie, and I've noticed that my videos are squished when imported into iMovie.
The original .dv file is 648x480 (4:3) with letter boxing built into the vid. When I import into iMovie 4:3 it appears to be squishing it vertically.
You can see what I mean here:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/115943/Picture%201.png
Changing the project to 16:9 makes the issue worse.
What can I do to make sure the video doesn't get squished?
Thanks in advance!

I'm going to have to test this out, because I've wondered how iMovie '09 would deal with DV. I think it has something to do with unsquare pixels (DV uses them, Apple Intermediate Codec—which iMovie '09 "converts" clips to sometimes—uses square pixels.
Perhaps if you edit the video as-is, looking that way (squashed down), and export it with custom settings within Quicktime (not just using iMovie's default export feature) that you can squish it back into shape? As long as all the clips are consistently squished or squashed, then I think it might work . . . we'll have to see.

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