1920x1080 footage in Compressor aspect ratio off

Hi guys,
I'm new to Compressor. I have an HD 1080p footage that I want to down sample to 720p or smaller, but keep the same 16:9 aspect ratio. It seems that Compressor always display and output at 4:3 aspect ration. My compressed video looks squished. What's going on? I'm trying to use ProRes setting.
Can any one help?
Shaun

I had the same thing. I was compressing some HDV to SD 16x9. In the preview it showed 4:3.
After it was compressed, it was in 16x9 format.
Have you tried just doing it and seeing what the results are?
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