Exporting 16:9 Xl1s footage-again.

I am a recent FCP convert from Sony Vegas and am extremely confused by FCP's exporting preferences. I have been reading the multitudes of posts, tutorials, blogs etc about exporting 16:9 footage from FCP. None of them have seem to answer my questions and concerns. I have shot 98% of the footage on a Canon XL1s 16:9 and have imported it thru the easy set up DV NTSC Anamorphic preset. Everything seems fine there. Of course when I export it via QT Movie NTSC DV Anamorphic and then drop it in the viewer its 4:3. This seems to be what the multitudes of posts I have read are about. My question is, what are the consequences of this? Has my footage's aspect ratio been altered? HAve I compromised quality when I export for final print? The footage is tagged as Anamorphic in the browser and item properties after its imported, but after export it is not. Yet when I check the anamorphic tag in the browser it displays in the proper aspect ratio again. I've read that the footage should be exported via QT Conversion, but apparently you cannot render as a reference file as you can in QT Movie which is all I want to do right now while I continue to edit and will output to Widescreen DVD in the end. I guess in short is, what is the absolute proper way to export this widescreen footage to where I won't be screwed later?

If you export your Timeline with current Sequence Settings and bring that back into FCP, you might have to reset the Anamorphic flag:
Select the item in the Browser and press command and 9.
Locate Anamorphic in the left hand column. Click in the Clip column just to the right to place a check mark there. It will display correctly in FCP.
Sometimes, the Anamorphic flag does not stick, when you view in QuickTime Player.
In QT Player: Press command and J keys to get the Properties window.
Click on Presentation. Click the checkbox next to Conform Aperture. The setting will jump to Clean, displaying your movie correctly.
You should save it in this state if the movie is only going to be viewed on a computer.
When you build a DVD with this movie, you take it in in its 4:3 squashed ratio and tell DVD SP that the file is 16:9 Letterbox. Click the movie track in the graphic display. The button to set 16:9 letterbox is at bottom right of the DVD SP interface.

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