Formatting Question - Help, working on a deadline

I have a FCP sequence that's 1920x816, square pixel, 23.98 fps to I need to convert to a 16:9 m2v for a DVD.
I exported it to Compressor using the "best quality-90 min" setting and set the Padding pull down menu to 16:9 ... the resulting image when played in Quicktime and burnt to a dvd is far off center- the picture slid to the right leaving much more space on the left side of the screen than the right. How do I do this correctly so it's all correctly centered?
I'm also noticing that Compressor is seeing the sequence as having a NTSC 601 pixel aspect ratio, which it is not- it's square, but those settings in Compressor are grayed out- don't know if that has anything to do with it.
On a related note, when I burn this on a DVD should I set DVDSP to letterboxed or pan & scan or both?
Thanks for the help!
Robert
Message was edited by: Robert Wear

You're not distorting it, no. 1920x1080 is a 16x9 ratio in HD. When you drop a 1920x816 clip into it, the clip will fill to the left and right edges of the frame, and there will be black on the top and bottom (letterboxing) because you don't have enough vertical pixels to fill the frame.
FCP only tries to make a clip fit across the nearest comparable dimension. If your clip was 1900x816, FCP would automatically zoom the clip in until it fit across the horizontal. It won't stretch a clip, it will attempt to maintain the proper aspect ratio of the original clip.
Andy

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