Distorted video-format in presentation

Hi!
I'm making a presentation which consists of both photos and videos. The videos are cut in Premiere Elements and exported in DV-PAL format (16:9). When the videos are played in Elements or other media players they look allright, but when they are imported in my presentation, the format becomes distorted and look like 4:3. How come? The final presentation is be saved as .wmv-file with DVD-PAL settings (720x576).
Regards Fredrik

I agree that your screens do seem to show a good widescreen output from Premiere Elements.
However, referring back to my original questions,
1 -- I don't see the answer about whether you did any outputs from Photoshop Elements to a wmv file - did you? .(If you did then I think that is where the problem occurs so it may be really important to understand which program you used to create that wmv file that is bad.)
2 -- Or did you do a Send Slideshow from the PS Elements 7 slide show Editor to Premiere Elements?
Now in theory this should work but many people have encountered problems for widescreen.
ALSO
3 -- Concerning the approach of using only Premiere Elements
-- I understand very well the situation of knowing Photoshop Elements better than Premiere Elements : this is also true for me.
-- maybe it would be easier for you to use the Photoshop Elements editor and its Text Tool to add your Text to a copy of each photo file and then use those copy files (with the text already added) in Premiere Elements. If you want to do this, I would try a photo first just to verify that the text looks OK in the final results.
-- I recommend that you do a trial output from Premiere Elements for the work that you have done so far. The objective is to check that what you are currently doing will work before you spend additional time.

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