Help - How to compress a 4x3 project shot as wide screen

Hello everyone, I've shot a short promo on my old PD150 which is naturally a 4x3 format. However, I use the camera setting that adds a crop top and bottom to make it 16x9. I import it to final cut pro and cut it as a 16 x 9 sequence. It works fine when I export as a quick time and to DVD. But when I try to compress it for viewing online - the picture gets squashed vertically so everything looks long and thin! Any ides on compression settings to sort this out? Thanks - any thoughts really appreciated

You're actually in the wrong forum for FCP 6. You should post this question in the Final Cut Studio forum.
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