4K editing help

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Hi all,

I have a couple quick queries hopefully someone may be able to answer for me.

When I import my 4k footage into Final Cut Pro it looks really good - nice and sharp.
If I drop that 4k footage into a 1080 timeline 2 things happen -

A) it becomes very soft - not sharp at all and

B) it doesn't even fill the 1080 frame. Meaning - there is black bars top and bottom of the video as it is not filling up the frame. I am having to manually zoom in on the footage to fill the frame. Given 4k footage is much larger than 1080 why would this be happening??

Many thanks.
 
I may not be much help, but my 4k footage dropped into Adobe Premier looks good. I don't have any of those issues in Premier.
 

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