I Can't Make a 16:9 widescreen DVD!

I guess this is also iDVD issue but my problem is that I cannot make a widescreen copy of the work I did with Final Cut ExpressHD (3.5) I've tried to upload my quicktime file into idvd but it comes out 4:3
every time. So--my question is can I do something with the parameters or sizing options in QuickTime Conversion Export to make it work better. I've tried 960 by 540. I've tried importing it into iMovie but no luck so far.

Out of the 3 solutions proposed by Tom in his web page, I like best QuickTime Pro, described by Tom in details. It's the easiest one and always works, but you have to buy the QT Pro upgrade (about 30$) if you don't have it yet.
To use the free myDVDEdit here are the detailed instructions:
- Use iDVD to create a disk image, but do not burn the DVD from iDVD; instead create a +disk image+ file
- From the finder open the disk image and copy its VIDEO_TS folder to your desktop
- Change the VIDEO_TS file permissions to let you modify its contents: in the finder Get Info panel select read/write for this folder and +all its internal folders+
- Open myDVDEdit and use its File>Open command to open the modifiable copy of the VIDEO_TS folder
- In the top left panel of the myDVDEdit window select +VTS 1+
- In the panel below the video frame select +VTS 1+ among the vertical left tabs, and then Parameters among the top center tabs
- Now you can see some parameters, that in your case should be: Coding mode: MPEG-2, Standard: NTSC, Resolution: 720x480
- Aspect is what you need: this should be set to +_16:9 auto letterbox_+ - if not, select this option
- Save - this is all you need to do in myDVDEdit
- Now you have to +make a new disk image with the modified VIDEO_TS folder+: if you have Toast you have simply to drag the new VIDEO_TS folder to the proper Toast window and burn; otherwise you can use DVDImager, a free application, to create the new disk image, and then use Disk Utility to burn the real DVD.
Even if the above steps are not a big problem, for sure using QT Pro is faster (no VIDEO_TS folder nor disk image handling, etc.): and I think it's a powerful tool whose value is much higher than its price.
Piero

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