Widescreen matte on rotated shots

I'm shooting on a DVX 100 in letterbox mode. In FCP 5 I enlarge and rotate some of my clips, then wish to apply a widescreen matte so these rotated/enlarged clips conform to the widescreen of all of my other clips.
When I apply widescreen filter, nothing happens.
Any ideas? Or am I missing something?
Thanks.

I bet you enlarged (scaled) the images to for, so that you just don't see the matte anymore. They scale with the clip. As they do rotate also.
Obviously you'll need to build a matte on the top layer to have a consistent matte.
Create one in Photoshop or use my free plugin:
http://www.rienq.dds.nl/fcp.
The photoshop-way renders faster by the way. My plugin is easier in the way that you can use it within FCP. You can decide yourself.
Rienk

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I'm new to this.... but i have a problem...
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1) Make your own widescreen bars out of black mattes and place them in the tracks above your video.
2) Nest your edited sequence (the one with the motion) into another sequence and put the widescreen matte on that one.
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Unfortunately new to FCP and still in rookie land.
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Will I loose any quality by moving the image in this
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