16:9 plays in 4:3

I have a .mov file of a 16:9 programme that was in 4:3 full height anamorphic 720 x 576, so i opened it in QT7 pro and changed the frame size to 1024 x 576 so it plays in 16:9. All works well in QT7Pro but if movie is played in QTplayer 10 it plays back in 720 x 576 again. How can i make the movie retain the correct aspect ratio for any QT player? any help welcome. Thanks Phil.

I encoded the movie via an AJA Ki Pro recorder that encodes in ProRes 422.
Not familiar with the AJA Ki Pro recorder. QT ProRes 422 employs presets for both non-anamorphic and anamorphic NTSC and PAL SD broadcast standards, as well as, HD standards. When used in the anamorphic mode, these presets set both the PAR and the "Current Size" settings so the file play back correctly in either QT 7 or QT X based applications.
I asked them how to flag it as 16:9 and they were unable to help, so I will persevere.
If the recording/conversion system/device does not offer amamorphic presets, then record/convert using a non-anamorphic approach where the encoding matrix dimensions are equal to the target display dimensions. This should create a file that plays correctly in both QT 7 and QT X based apps but may either create a larger file than necessary in the 16:9 aspect or reduce 4:3 quality slightly.
It seems that quirk is with QT 10.1 as the movies play back in 16:9 on QT10.
If the recorded file plays back correctly in QT X but not QT 7, then the PAR value is correctly set but the "Current Size" value is not correctly set. If the file plays correctly in QT 7 but incorrectly in QT X, then the "Current Size" value was correctly set but the PAR value was probably lost/set to a default 1:1 value. If the file plays incorrectly in both QT 7 and QT X, then the file was probably encoded using anamorphic encode matrix dimensions with neither the PAR nor "Current Size" values set for the correct aspect ratio.

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