Idvd 16:9 issue

Hi All:
Okay, I've been shooting in HD 16:9 and using the Sony's HDV DV down conversion to import into FCP HD in SD 16:9. I've exported as Quicktime movie in both NTSC 48 format and NTSC 48 anamorphic.
Once in idvd, I choose the 16:9 format and when playing back the film, the image is a 16:9 area boxed to 4:3 then boxed back to 16:9. The effect is that on a 16:9 screen it looks like a miniature 16:9.
Somehow, it seems to think that it has to convert the original 16:9 to 4:3, then letter boxes it back to 16:9. Very frustrating.
Any thoughts?
Much thanks!
Jay Dogg

I have cut standard definition widescreen footage in FC. Exported it as QuickTime. And never managed to burn it as widescreen in iDVD6. Was told that QT does not carry the widescreen flag over to other programmes.
So what I did was that I loaded the free Anamorphicizer from the web, then dragged the original QT file to Anamorphicizer. The conversion happened in seconds. Then I had to save the new file, of course. You cannot do that in QT7. For the saving you need to buy QT Pro (30 euros).
When you have saved the new file you can import it to iDVD. And what you get is a standard widescreen image, which fill the whole screen if you have a widescreen tv. In the normal tv you get black space on top and under the image. All video players I have used seem to read the DVDs as widescreen DVDs.

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