HELP!  Funky Aspect Ratio in Quicktime playback.

Why would my video's aspect ratio look different in Final Cut than it does in Quicktime?
The video is NTSC and appears correctly in Final Cut (when the "show as sq. pixels" box is checked in my viewer/canvas). My sequence is set to NTSC DV, and none of the clips required rendering when dropped into my timeline, so I know I'm using the correct settings. When I export a Quicktime movie using the current sequence settings, it's width appears stretched when playing back in Quicktime.
Why would that be?

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1266231&tstart=0
Hope that helps !
  Alberto

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