Exporting Quicktime Animation 16:9

I'm new to Motion, so this is very likely an easy question, but I cannot seem to find the answer.
I have been working on a short motion project that is widescreen. I set the project settings to 720x480 and use 1.2 as the pixel aspect ratio. When I export, however, using the Animation codec, it usually ends up being 4:3 instead of 16:9.
I've gotten it to work twice, but I cannot figure out what I did those two times to make it different. Help?
Thanks!
—Dan

To understand this issue, you must first understand the difference between 16:9 and anamorphic. 16:9 is a ratio where you have 16 pixels horizontally for every 9 pixels vertically. Some true 16:9 ratios include 1280x720, and 1920,1080. 720x480 is actually a 4:3 ratio. Anamorphic squeezes a 16:9 frame into a 4:3 frame by stretching the image vertically and pushing it in a sort of accordian
fashion.
Programs like FCP usually interpret these anamorphic clips properly and will stretch them back into a 16:9 frame by visually distorting the image horizontally so that it appears to be the correct aspect.
However, when you export from Motion, you're still exporting a 4:3 aspect. It's anamorphic, but it's still 4:3. Quicktime usually needs to be told to display it properly in 16:9, and FCP as well. For some reason, FCP doesn't always understand that your exported Motion clip is meant to be anamorphic.
In FCP, it's an easy fix: just click the anamorphic column beside the clip in the browser for it to be viewed correctly. In Quicktime, you have to go into the presentation settings (CMD+J) and switch the Conform aperture to Clean, I think.
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