Widescreen analogue video converted A-D has bars top and bottom?

I have converted a 16:9 video on VHS tape to PAL DV using a Canopus converter.
This creates a widescreen image with black bars top and bottom in the PAL 4:3 frame and when played on a widescreen TV the 16:9 image occupies the central portion of the screen with black bars all round. (It looks OK on a 4:3 CRT as it fills the width of the screen with just bars above and below.)
Ideally I would like the image to fill the 16:9 TV screen. Using the zoom control on the TV is not an answer as it zooms too much and I lose parts of the picture and get unnecessary degradation.
Is there a reasonably simple solution using FCP 7 or its companion apps?
I also have FCP X . . . . though I don't know whether that helps!

The Canopus shouldn't be converting to letterbox 4:3 on it's own. If the video was 16:9 going in, why wouldn't it be 16:9 going out? A 4:3 aspect program will naturally have a pillarbox on a 16:9 monitor. Even if it has letterbox bars to begin with.
And if you take it into FCP, what aspect appears there?

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