H.264 with widescreen

I shot a movie in MiniDV in squeeze format.
I imported the footage in FinalCut in anamorphic, and I edited in anamorphic.
I am exporting now a Quicktime movie to print on a Music CD, but the version I get is not in anamorphic, the images are squeezed.
How do I get an export in anamorphic?
Thank you very much.

Since your using FinalCut. Export to Compressor. Set Compressor to anamorphic 16:9. Compressor wil do the math for you. And you'll get a anamorphic movie in Qt...................

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I am very disappointed how Premiere CC export h.264.
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Every time in different places.
I have delete all cache, changed nvidia drivers., finally removed all nvidia drivers and expored without them.
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