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I have imported some older standard video clips (640X480) into Final Cut Pro X. When I burn a DVD of a project based on those clips, I have a problem playing the DVD on a widescreen TV. Instead of displaying the correct 4:3 aspect ratio, the video fills the screen, cropping some of the image. However, the DVD plays properly when viewed via my Mac Pro. I never had this problem using the same clips in iMovie projects. In iMovie I could set the project properties to “Fit in Frame” rather than “Crop” and the resulting DVD would play the proper 4:3 aspect ratio on a widescreen TV, with black spacers on the left and right of the video image. Unfortunately Apple phone support has not been able to resolve this problem. Any suggestions?

The Video Properties indicate NTSC SD format. However, I noticed that that gives me 720X480 resolution. Perhaps that's the problem.
OK, I just experimented and when I choose "Other" under video properties format, then I get the correct 640X480 resolution. Let me try another DVD burn with this change, and report back whether that corrects the issue. Thanks for pointing me to double check that.

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