Exporting quicktime FCP 5

Hello
I am having trouble exporting through Quicktime conversion in Final Cut Pro 5. I am currently using a high end system using a Kona LHe capture card working on uncompressed 8-bit SD footage. This captures fine and plays from the timeline in the canvas window correctly. As soon as I try and export it at 720x576 the 4:3 image gets squashed width ways in the Quicktime movie. Also the image is now squeezed the same way in the canvas window. It looks as if the programme thinks it is 16:9 footage that needs squeezing into a 4:3 frame. The original footage is 4:3 though and therefore gets squeezed thinner.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Okay, PAL DV pixels are wider than they are tall (the opposite of NTSC pixels), so if you export at your sequence resolution to view on the desktop, things will look squished (in NTSC they look squashed). When you export for viewing on a square pixel device (like a computer monitor), your width should be 787x576. This will correct for the PAL DV pixel aspect (1.0926/1)...
Make sense?
post back,
Patrick

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What arrow?
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+Jim Cookman :+
+"The studio apps "brand" their exports. Actually kind of useful...+
In the words of the venerable Forest Gump, "Useful is as useful does" ... or something like that.
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best
g
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