Widescreen still images

I'm challenged when dealing with widescreen still images. I'm using FCE 3.01, ntsc anamorphic. The user manual says to scale stills to 853x480, then narrow the width to 720 to compensate for pixel width differences.
When I do that, the resulting images display incorrectly on the monitor (as promised by the manual), but when I print to video, they're still narrow, and i get pillar bars (black stripes on the sides) as well as the letterbox...
As a test, I reimported a single image without the width reduction (leaving it at 853 pixels) and the results display fine on the video walkman i use for a monitor.
help!

Try this - select the image(s) on the timeline. CMDOptionV in the pop up box select Motion. This will restore the image to it's full size. When you place the image on the timeline FCE reduces the size so it fits within the height and or width of the timeline resolution.

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