Aspect ratio inappropriate with final result

hi guys.. we meet again..   i get a problem here.. look at the picture below..
above one is my comp when i make it to the final result below.. how to setting my comp to make it look the same with the final video? the final comp has a widescreen perfectly. but my comp not.. im using AE CS5 10.0.458

You can either turn on Pixel Aspect Ratio correction in the Composition window or change your composition settings to the default NTSC DV Widescreen Square Pixel preset. Your frame rate is wrong for this preset however. If you are going to DVD then you should be either using 29.97 fps for NTSC video, or you should be using the PAL Widescreen Presets. I believe, and so does Wikipedia, that Indonesia is a PAL country until 2018. Your Comp Settings should look like this for NonSquare pixels:
Or this for Square Pixels:
A render from either will go into any program that builds DVD's. A render from the Square Pixel setup will work perfectly on the web for YouTube or Vimeo while a render from the NonSquare comp settings will have problems displaying correctly on a computer monitor or on the web.
Just one more thing. If you are creating artwork for this project in Photoshop or Illustrator then you should use 1050 X 576 pixels for your frame size. That sized image will fit perfectly in either composition.

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    IT GETS WEIRDER: In order to try to correct my possible problem I've also tried exporting using the Self Contained Quicktime "DV-NTSC 48kHz 4:3" setting in the pop up menu (instead of usung "Current Settings"). The movies I export that way look consistently normal, aspect ratio-wise. Upon examining the properties of those (correct looking)resultant movies in Quicktime Player, it tells me that the pixel dimensions are 640 x 480.
    Why would my 640 x 480 pixel QT exports look OK when I view them in every software?
    Is this happening because I am viewing on a computer monitor and the various software apps are doing aspect ratio adjustments (for square vs rectangular pixels) for my display ...sometimes, but not all the time?
    This is such a fundamental thing to know that I feel really dim for being confused. Thanks in advance for taking time to read this and hopefully setting me straight.
    Dual G5/2.5GHz/4.5 GB, internal ATA, G-SATA 500   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   Final Cut Studio 5.0.4

    Yes, it's the difference between square and rectangular pixels. The capture window displays the rectangular pixels without correcting them for display on a square-pixel monitor like an Apple Cinema Display. The Canvas and the Viewer do correct for that by default. When you export to QT using current settings, you are exporting rectangular pixels because that's what the current settings are. The QuickTime player isn't correcting for the different pixel aspect ratios on playback, but if your final destination isn't the QuickTime player, that's not important.
    Since you seem to be exporting the QuickTime movies in order to make a DVD, you shouldn't try to "fix" the pixel aspect. Leave it alone and your DVDs will be fine.

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