Aspect ratio changing on export

Hi all. I'm working at a company producing content for a rolling news channel. We've just started editing using Premiere Pro CC and exporting via Dalet Xtend. Much of the archive footage is 4:3 and has to be conformed and scaled up; however, after exporting using the MXF OP1a/XDCAMHD 50 PAL 422 preset, all of the conforming and scaling is lost unless we render the timelines first. Whilst this isn't a problem in itself, it seems like an extra step and I'm not sure that I understand why we would need to render the timeline before exporting the video. Is there anything that I'm missing in the export phase that would explain why the conforming is not holding...?

Hi Jim, and thanks for getting back to me, everything's getting a little tense around here.
I'm all for leaving 4:3 as nature intended, but the honchos are not impressed with the squishing and stretching that occurs with some of the different formats. Conforming this stuff using Clip > Modify > Interpret Footage > Conform to [yadda] or stretching and scaling on the Timeline using the Motion properties isn't a problem. The strange thing is that when we export the video to, say, the desktop, everything is fine - the conforming and scaling holds its shape perfectly. However, when exporting through Dalet Xtend without rendering the Timeline first, the conformed footage reverts to its original settings while the stuff on the timeline looks fine. It seems to be company policy to use Dalet Xtend, so I don't think we can dissuade them from using it. What I'm struggling to understand and explain is why this happens if we don't render the Timeline first - surely the rendering is done on export? News teams aren't happy about having to double-render stuff.
Am I missing something really obvious in Prem, or does this sound like something I should throw at the Dalet chaps...?

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