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I posted this in the iDVD forum yesterday but have received no response and it now appears it could equally be an FCE problem.
Yesterday I made 9 short slideshow videos in Final Cut Express, exported them as QuickTime Movies (NOT self-contained) and dragged them into a 4:3 PAL iDVD project. (The pictures were hi-res JPEG scans of 35mm slides so have an aspect ratio of 3:2 and appear letterboxed in the 4:3 sequences in FCE).
On playing the project in iDVD, 2 of the 9 videos were stretched and had the statement "Widescreen Preview" in green.
Yet all the videos were created identically.
Thinking it was maybe an FCE problem I checked all the project/sequence data in FCE and it was all OK. They also played back normally in both FCE and QT Player.
Can anyone suggest how this has happened?
This morning I trashed both FCE’s and iDVD’s preferences to no avail.
I have also re-exported the videos as self-contained QT Movies but still no luck.
One other, more sinister “problem”, is that last night I let the cursor hover over the iDVD playback button and the iDVD monitor suddenly started giving a fantastic display of brightly coloured geometrical shapes ...... mostly triangles, I think.
Then when I switched back to FCE there was a strange interface break-up just under and around the cursor looking like lots of small black squares or mosaics. I switched both apps off immediately and went to bed!
A failing video card?
So far this morning, after trashing preferences, repairing permissions and disconnecting the power cable for several minutes, both programs appear to be OK, but I am expecting the worst!

Hi Ian, try looking over these two threads:
The short and seemingly useful one:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8995428
The long and somewhat unhelpful one:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1475310&start=0&tstart=0
The key in the first one seems to be re-saving the movie as a self-contained movie using QT Pro. I wonder if the same thing would work if you exported as a self-contained QT movie from FCE?
The second one toys around with the AIFF audio being the problem, and suggests a workaround using a program called Inverse-Anamorphicizer. I'm not sure if I believe the conclusion about the audio these people came up with...
You might try the QT Pro approach first and see if that fixes it, especially because the second thread is quite long.
Also, take a look over this MacFixIt link:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080612095355771
Apparently you are not the only one with this problem!
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