Parts of FCE finished movie looks distorted on HDTV

i took a rough cut of a sequence i'm working on and exported it to quicktime in FCE, then took the resulting file and used toast to create a DVD. my purpose was to check to see how the safe area markers in FCE worked in my real life home TV situation. the safe areas are fine, but now i find that some of my still pictures, which looked fine during the edit process inside FCE, now look stretched and distorted on my TV. Any thoughts on what might have caused this? i used the export to quicktime output option, not the quicktime conversion method (as described in tom's book).

Hi(Bonjour)!
HDTV... did you use a high def sequence settings (Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60 or so) to edit your stills?
What kind of DVD format did you cchoose in toast, a Blue-Ray (high def) or DViX one ?
To get a final HD material, you have to use HD settings at each step of workflow.
As you know HD is alway 16:9, but the pixel aspect ratio can be different from one HD format to another.
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