Anamorphic to QuickTime .mov is stretched to 4:3

When I output to a QuickTime movie, my FCE sequence goes from 16:9 to 4:3, with the attendant vertical stretch.
I have mini-DV SD footage shot in anamorphic mode, mixed with 16:9 HD MPEG-4 720p footage shot with my digital still camera. I used Compressor to convert the HD shots to DV-NTSC Anamorphic, so no rendering needed. I am using FCE 3.5. My sequences have the anamorphic option ticked, Compressor: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, Pixel Aspect: NTSC - CCIR 601, Frame size: 720:480.
But why does Quicktime want to stretch the 16:9 footage to full frame 4:3? I tried a lot of different output routes, the closest being to use QuickTime Conversion to make a DV Stream 4:3, which gave me a 4:3 Quicktime movie with black bars, but at least the aspect ratio was right. Most other options either gave me a vertical stretch to 4:3, no black bars, or kind of a 16:7, which was squatty, making the people fat.
As I said, the source material AND the sequences are checked for anamorphic, and look fine in FCE 3.5. But most of the Quicktime options stretch it vertically to 4:3 on output.
HELP!
rcarbaugh

Thank you for your responses this morning.
I realized this morning that I did not indicate for what purpose I am exporting in the first place. Sorry. The ultimate aim for this is web streaming on my website. Some of it may go to YouTube, but the primary content is a little over an hour, so that limits what YouTube can provide.
I do have QuickTime Pro, although I clearly do not know how to use it to solve my mystery.
Since the majority of the footage is from my old-school mini-DV NTSC camcorder, with only about 10% from the digital still camera in HD 720p (1280x720) movie mode, my understanding was that the best route was to shoot the mini-DV in 16:9 WideScreen mode, then use Compressor to convert the 16:9 HD footage to DV-NTSC mode. That allowed me to edit in FCE 3.5 in a 16:9 environment without any rendering of footage.
So, I understand that "All DV NTSC is 720x480 whether it's 4:3 or widescreen." Which means that in my case, I will end up with a 4:3 output with black bars top and bottom. Unavoidable, I suppose. I'm okay with that, I guess, although it would be great to have it 16:9 on the web without bars... say 720x405 or something like that. But that is a different issue. Right now, I just want to output it to the web with the proper aspect ratio.
"The widescreen image is done by anamorphically squeezing the image horizontally." Well, squeezing or stretching is exactly what I DON'T want. The footage imports into FCE as 16:9 with gray bars top and bottom and the people look normal. But it exports to QuickTime as 4:3 stretched with no black bars, and people look tall and skinny. Playing back from QuickTime Pro plays back tall and skinny with no black bars in a 4:3 window.
Is that enough info? The sequence is set with the anamorphic flag checked, and so is all of the footage. But the output movie looks like the anamorphic flag was unchecked and I don't know where to check it.
If I output it using QuickTime Conversion or Compressor to 720p with cropping, but make it a custom size of 720x405 would it take the NTSC DV footage and keep it 720 wide but give me a 16:9 output? Or would it try to distort everything to 1280x720, then squeeze it down?
It is too late now for this project, but should I have simply shot the DV footage 4:3 and used cropping on the 720p HD footage to make it 4:3/720x480?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
rcarbaugh

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