Having trouble with elongation of clips in iMovie3-Export2QT

Hello,
Would anyone be able to give me advice/solutions to my difficulty with iMovie 3? I've created a movie consisting entirely of my photos (with transitions & effects, of course). It looks great when iMovie plays it back for me, but when I export it to a Quick Time format, every photo becomes elongated (i.e. the horizontal to vertical ratio of each frame is out of proportion). This occurs consistently with each new project.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions/advice.
Sincerely,
ByTheLightOfQuiveringAspensMade

To further add to Matti's comments... TV's use rectangular pixels. A computer monitor uses square. A TV really has 720 horizontal pixels but because they are rectangular so the horizontal part of each pixel is narrower than it is tall. 720 narrow TV pixels are about equal to 640 square computer pixels. Normally when you work in iMovie, to keep things simple it uses 640x480 format when showing your stuff while behind the scenes it really is maintaining a 720x480 format. It does all this stuff behind the scenes so you don't have to think about it.
However, as you discovered, when you export a QT file, sometimes you now have to think about it because the square vs. rectangular thing comes into play. When you export QT and under the size setting you tell it to use the current setting or default or whatever it says that indicates it will use the size as it currently is in your project, the ACTUAL ratio is 720 by 640, so that is what it outputs and hence you get the stretched out looking movie. Instead you want to tell iMovie the ratio/size of your export. So if you meant to export the full size, then manually enter in 640x480 and you will get the correct output.
Patrick

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