Color stretches my clips

so i have a project in final cut pro, i send it to color 1.5, it says the settings are the same (custom 960 x 540) , but how come it stretches out my image?? what this reminds me of is a 4:3 TV show stretched out to 16:9.
how can i keep this from happening?

ok so i'm a total beginner with all of this. long story short...
I have some old footage it is 960 x 540 H.264. it's a .mov
I have my project in final cut pro, and i hit send to color. it then sends to color and in color the settings say 960 x 540 however it is a lot wider than 960 when it gets into color however it still looks 540 high. when i send it back to final cut pro it cuts off some footage on the sides but still is stretched out. here is an image on before and after exported using quicktime.
http://i28.tinypic.com/20qjclv.png
how can i use color and have it maintain my 960x 540 ??

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