Working with DV Letterbox & DV Wide screen

Hello everyone,
I recently sent some tapes to a friend that was shot on a Sony Z1U in HDV 1080i then down-converted DV-letterbox. He would like to incorporate this footage with his own footage shot on Canon using the DV Widescreen setting.
I know that he wants to use my footage in DV-letterbox prominently in his project. I would like to help him but he is using iMovie HD06. I have searched the iMovie forum for an answer and posted a question there. I'm hoping that this might be a common issue shared by all users and with a simple solution.
When he imports his footage using the DV Widescreen setting, his footage is fine but the DV-letterbox footage is squashed. He tells me that if he edits in 4:3 then the reverse happens...my footage ok, his footage squashed.
If this is an iMovie related issue only, i apologize for the double post.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Chris

Hi Jerry,
It's nice of you to follow up with me.
We've been shooting a lot lately and we haven't had a chance to experiment yet. I often down convert from our Z1U to the companion deck but I have to admit that I've never tried a camera to camera firewire dub. My husband seems to think that the camera will record only whatever the lens is seeing but I'm thinking that the firewire connection trumps that theory and acts pretty much like a deck. We plan to visit our local media arts centre next week. They have a Canon camera that we can experiment with. I'll let you know how it goes.
Meanwhile....
After a few weeks of distressed e-mails from the fellow who is using iMovie to cut this project, he's found his own solution. He has purchased a program called iShowU HD for $60 US. His workflow is to digitize my footage into iMovie 720P then frame grab the footage from the computer screen? He then re-frames it to 16:9 with apparently no quality loss. This creates a file which he then imports into iMovie using DV Widescreen.
He says that it looks good but I have my doubts.
Cheers,
Chris

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