1280x720 sequence need to export as 640x480 .mov

So I shot all the footage in 1920x1080 and the client said they wanted 1280x720 .mov files as final output.
I edited the 1080p footage in a 720p sequence so I could reframe a bit. Now they want 640x480 .mov as final output. What is the best/easiest way to achieve this?
I can easily find presets for .mp4 at 640x480 but I'm struggling to find a way to export at that resolution in .mov. I'm pretty tired, hopefully I'm missing something simple. Any help or advice is much appreciated.

Yes you did. I will try that though I assume it will letterbox it.
I mean the aspect ratios are different so I don't know what I was expecting, magic? Lol. Like I said I'm tired, been moving and editing at the same time.
I appreciate your responses.
I just dug up an email where the customer confirms that 1280x720 was fine. He's my only contact but he forwarded an email from the web designer (I assume, videos are meant for website) where she says, "Format: Standard Definition. 4:3 Ratio. 640x480." That was today, well after the videos were shot and edited.
So I did what I was told, now it's wrong it looks like. This will probably get interesting. Feel a bit better with that email, at least I shot correctly.
Problem is, HD to SD is one of my nemesis'. The videos look like crap in 640x480 SD. I tried exporting them as .mp4 with some 640x480 Apple TV or something or other, preset. Soft. There are better presets but HD footage usually looks crappy for me in SD.
Guess that's a whole other post though.

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i'm trying to export HD .mov files from an Aiptek GO-HD camcorder that seems to record in QT format with some funky codecs. I need to export it into a format that i can edit on a PC using Premier Elements 3.0. The few tests i've run have shown a huge increase in size when exporting from .mov to .avi (100m to 30 GB).
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ok here's the info everyone has been asking for -- and, please remember, I have solved the exporting QT to make a DVD now . . . .
The pressing issue is that, somewhere in the process -- the images that fit within the 16:9 got bigger so that less of the image is in the frame.
I made stills from the same frames in the different sequences to show the difference between them. Unfortunately, I can't attach these images in the forum.
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