Exports suddenly look like double-widescreen (in FCE)

Please, help. After many successful 16:9 (SD) exports, they suddenly look like a 16:9 w/black bars inside a 16:9 area that already has black bars (looks like a double-widescreen effect). Hopefully, this is just a setting that needs to be reset somehow. Thank you for any help. ---TMP-MAC

Problem solved. Thanks to all for considering this one. Just needed to place a check-mark in "Anamorphic" (in sequence properties) BEFORE I captured any widescreen video. Now the canvas will look right (solid gray bars - one set only), and my exports look right (one black bar at top and one at bottom, and subjects are not flattened between them). Never saw anything like this in any instructions anywhere, unfortunately.

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