Fce- distorted/ elongated faces and images

My fce movie appears okay on my mac - but not on other dvd players... distorted/ squished/ elongated.
Any suggestions?
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) FCE

Try View>Level>and check the "Show as Square Pixels" item.
TV and computers display images differently. Selecting this option simulates (sort of) how a picture will look on a TV.
A better option is to lace a TV/monitor to your mac and watch on that.
Maybe you shot the image in 4:3 aspect ratio and are using a 16:9 Easty Setup or visa versa!!
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In Finder file-path from root Pictures>iPhoto>Library>subdirectories by year etc replaced by a single iPhotodatabase that can only be accessed by opening using iPhoto
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I also notice that the Browse facility used to attach photos in Mail is also rendered useless - clicking one photo fails to attach a photo; i can click and drag one photo into an e-mail; but this goes into the e-mail body rather than as an attached item.
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I am trying to export the masters to an external drive with all of my star ratings, places, faces, and tags in order to import them to a smaller file.
Not sure what you are getting at here. What do you mean by "import them into a smaller file?" Do you mean that you want to get rid of your Aperture library package (which is actually hundreds of thousands of files) and replace it with a different Aperture library which is smaller? Again, you might want to rethink this. It is not what Aperture is intended for -- you are giving up good, quality photos for something inferior. Why do you want to replace your photos with something inferior?
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