5D MkII - Quicktime Pro - MP4 - Premiere, why 4:3?!??!

I was trying to find a workflow that would allow me to do my video editing on Premiere. This has been a very expensive and frustrating road...
For some reason, if I export a 5D MkII .mov file using Quicktime Pro using:
File Format: MP4
Video
Video Format: Pass through
I end up with an .MP4 file that plays perfectly with VLC, and is even in 1920x1200 resolution and aspect ratio.
However, if I import that into Premiere, it shows up as 4:3 (and yet 1920x1200 resolution... go figure!).
To give you an idea, if I drag the original 5D MkII .mov file for the same video into the SAME project in Premiere, it shows up with the correct aspect ratio.
So this is obviously something wrong with how Premiere is handling this .MP4 file that Quicktime Pro has produced.
Can anyone help me on this? I have video to work on and this is majorly screwing me up.
-Joe Chott
P.S. I did try Cineform Neo Scene, but importing anything that program has produced just crashes Premiere, so that didn't help me one bit...

Sorry for the delay in getting back to post on this thread, I've been super busy.
The solution was:
1. Import the .MP4 file
2. Right click on the .MP4 file in the project (note: you have to right click on the icon, not the name for the popup menu to appear)
3. Choose "Interpret footage"
4. Change "Pixel Aspect Ratio" from "Use Pixel Aspect Ratio from File" to "Conform to: Square Pixels (1.0)"
Voila, the footage is again widescreen!
So my only remaining question on this topic is, why is quicktime not correctly writing the aspect ratio to the file? (It ends up saying "Other Aspect Ratio (0.755)" when I first import the file to the project...
Thanks!
-Joe Chott

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