Resize image during export from Imovie 11 to anamorphic.   It only crops.

Hi:
I shoot with a hacked panasonic gh13 and the hack allows it to shoot anamorphic hd video without a special lens.  When the footage comes out of the camera it has that stretched look to it.    It should be very simple to get to true anamorphic dimensions with the custom image size options in Quicktime and Mpeg.   I should be able to go to Share>Export using Quicktime>Options>  then set to 1920 by 810.   The stretched image should look normal after export but it only crops it no matter what option or if it is Mpeg or Quicktime.  I would appreciate any direction I could get with this.   It should be pretty simple.
Thanks
Thirgy

I'm not sure what 'anamorphic HD' is?
You can have anamorphic SD; which stretches 4:3 SD video to 16:9.
But HD is not anamorphic.
There are odd 1440x1080 sizes, but these are not generally described as "anamorphic HD".
I can't say I have heard of 1920 by 810 as a standard size.
iMovie Mac is really only for editing standard frame sizes, and so your video files are probably confusing it.
I would suggest you move to a dimension open editor like FCP7.
Or shoot at a standard frame size.

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