Aspect Ratio problem with Premiere Elements 10

I had old super 8 cine film transferred to video for me in December 2011 and put
it onto a Blu Ray disc as AVCHD files.
The disc is copied onto my computer and displays in the correct 4;3 aspect
ratio on the Desktop and plays correctly in VLC media viewer.
I have Adobe Premier Elements 10, but the video is “squeezed” narrow, e.g.
a circle displays as an oval in Monitor, Timeline and Sceneline views.
When I save the work to a disc it is also “squeezed”.
Pictures/footage from my Sony AVCHD video camera display correctly on the
Desktop and I have not had the above problem when editing it in Premier
Elements 10. I have also edited 4:3 photos and 16:9 video aspect ratios together into
without problems
I would be grateful (and relieved) if you can tell me how to fix this
please.

Thanks to people who showed an interest and replied.
Thanks especially to Kevin at digitacopycat who pointed me towards a workable solution within a couple of hours of posting the problem.
ASPECT RATIO
1. Open Premier Elements 10
2. Select and load the folder you wish to work on
3. In the Tasks Panel, click and open Project
4. Right click-on your folder
5. From the drop down menu select Interpret Footage
6. Choose Pixel Aspect Ratio and click-in the circle next to Conform to.
7. Click-on the down arrow to open the drop down menu
8. Select and click-on HD Anamorphic 1080 (1.333)
9. Click ok
10. All clips in Monitor Panel, Sceneline and Timeline change to the correct Aspect Ratio
11. Render the clips to maintain their correct Aspect Ratio

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<font color="blue"The thumbnails are normal size (widescreen), as they always have been, but the preview screen has cropped the footage to make it fit in my widescreen project. So I'm losing some of my shot.</font>
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It sounds as though these AVI files are not from a digital video camcorder.
What model of camcorder are these videos from and what resolution are they?
If they are from a still camera or smart phone that shoots in MP4/AVIs, they're not going to work in that format in Premiere Elements.
If you see a lot of red lines above your clips when you add them to your timeline, that's a pretty good indication of problems.
Is that the case in your project?
BTW, please don't start a new thread if you're continuing to discuss the same performance problems. It makes it very difficult to follow a discussion because we're not sure what you've already discussed and tried and what the history of your problem is.

Problem with Premiere elements 8

Hello
I have the software Adobe Premiere elements and I have a problem.
Yesterday I tried to launching a new project in the welcome screen and suddenly nothing happened.
It only said launching New Project and after 30 seconds it gone and nothing happened but earlier this week I edited something with the software.
I tried to reinstall the software it didn't help.
How I can fix this problem?
Thank you in advance

Eden K,
Do you mean Export/Share to FLV (Flash)? If so, then yes, and you will do that via the Share tab. You have two FLV CODEC choices. I like the On2 CODEC, over Sorenson, but some like the results with the Sorenson.
Good luck,
Hunt

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