Vidding aspect ratio question

[cheesycats]

Question for the vidders on my Flist. First off, I'm using Windows Movie Maker.

I'm trying to use source that's in 4:3 aspect ratio and source that's 16:9 aspect ratio in the same project. If I save my movie file in either aspect ratio, I end up with distorted images in the final product, one way or another. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get around this? Is there anyway to letter box the widescreen scenes or crop them, or put sidebars on the 4:3 scenes or any way to use the clips without having squashed heads?

I haven't done any actual work on my project yet, just tests to see how the aspect ratio comes out.

Help!

And Damn Joss Whedon for changing aspect ratio after Season 1 of Angel! >:-(

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[fiareynne.livejournal.com]

When I was using Movie Maker, after I figured out the aspect ratio thing, I used VirtualDub to crop the clips the way I wanted them.