Bug in iDVD

Quote"iDVD: DV widescreen 16:9 workflow from Final Cut Express
Issue
If you export an anamorphic 16:9 DV Sequence from Final Cut Pro with the intention of burning a DVD-Video of that sequence in iDVD, you may need to adjust the aspect ratio of the movie before you include it in your iDVD project. This may be necessary because in some cases, Final Cut Pro does not include the widescreen aspect ratio information that iDVD looks for.
Note: This issue relates specifically to DV format files. "
Is this bug fixed in iDVD'08 ?

Yes this is a bug. And no it is not fixed in iDVD 08. It just bit me. The strange thing is that it must be a fairly recent bug; I have made widescreen DVDs before without this problem. Somewhere along the line in OS, iDVD and FCE updates this bug has crept in.
Knowledgebase article TS1611, which you quoted, gives a work-around that does not require separate purchase of Quicktime Pro. Follow the export process from FCE in that article and you will indeed get your movie showing up in widescreen in the DVD.
BUT
This is a really ugly kludge. You start out in Final Cut Express with an anamorphic 720x480 movie. Then you render it to a square-pixel movie of dimensions 854x480 when you export from FCE; that takes 40 minutes for a 20 minute movie on my 2 GHz Macbook. Then in iDVD you render it back to the same anamorphic 720x480 format that you started with, using far more time and processing power than it would take if the anamorphic flag in the exported movie had been interpreted correctly.
If you simply export a DV format reference movie from FCE (takes about a minute), iDVD displays it widescreen in the Media panel. No problem importing it. But when you "play" your DVD in iDVD, the video comes up squished horizontally into 4x3 format with grey bars on the sides. And of course the actual DVD has the same problem.
Another similar KB article gives a workflow for Final Cut Pro, using Quicktime Pro (included in Studio). It's the same kludge as for FCE, just done a different way.
Come on, Apple. Fix this bug properly. It's not rocket science.

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