16:9 Exported to Quicktime Becomes 4:3

How do you preserve 16:9 aspect ratio in exporting a FCP sequence to Quicktime?
File>Export>Using Quicktime Conversion>and then I typically select Broadband-Medium or Streaming-Medium (I think that's 15fps). And eventhough I check Preserve Aspect Ratio, I still get a 4:3 square with 16:9 squeezed video.

Greetings,
I was in a similar situation as this fellow editor;
Most of my footage is 4:3, however I show it on plasmas that are 16:9 and some DVD players simply stretch my image. Can compressor fix this problem? I imported a 4:3 sequence into compressor and I want compressor to export it to a 16:9 format with pillarboxes. How do I do this? Thank you.
And your response was;
Hi,
select your encoding preset (i.e. DVD best quality 90 minutes) in settings window, drag it onto your video. Highlight/select the video to activate the inspector window info and tools. As you know in inspector you can click on 6 buttons to view/change settings (i.e. encoder, frame controls etc.) click on geometry.
Now in Crop to: select 16:9 and in padding select 16:9 but in the boxes below change top and bottom to 0 and left and right to 72.
Submit the encoding and once that's done import your MPEG2 as asset in DVSstudio, drag it on the track frame in the graphical window, single click it and in the track window (lower right side of the screen) select 16:9 as display mode. You should now have your 4:3 movie in a 16:9 ratio with pillarboxes.
G.
I followed your advice and after bringing into DVD studio pro, the only format I could export to was a video stream mpeg that doesn't open up for me. I want to export it as a mov file to import back into my final cut project. Is it possible to export a 16:9 format out of compressor as a mov file.
I am trying to see what would be the best road for me to go down.
I spent five years doing a documentary and half of the footage was shot 16:9, the other half 4:3. I like the 16:9 look and want to eventually try to convert all the 4:3 to 16:9.
what are your thoughts,
Thank you very much,
Julian

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