Jpeg in FC become squished

When I use digital photographs (jpeg) in my videos the become elongated (i.e.squished) and I can't figure out what to do to keep them in their original proportion. Any ideas?

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Hair pulling out time.
Images are 720x540 square pixels.
Sequence is 720x540 Sq. 4:3
pixel aspect is NTSC
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It's tricky business. I found a useful chart for graphics in a book called Final Cut Power Skills.
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The images at 720x540 square pixels are okay. Where I got into trouble, and where I came up with those non-standard format choices resulted from settings that made the photos look good in Final Cut. And that's where the post here came from. Looks great in Final Cut, but looks squished on DVD.
I used a "phone a friend" lifeline and I never would have figured it out otherwise. The new (correct, standard, and appropriate) settings look squished in FCP, but export and look fantastic on SD DVD, which is what matters most.
It's tricky though. Images are 720x540, but the FCP frame size is 720x480. (whoa!) The pixel aspect ratio is set to square. Put those both together and squish-o-rama. Yet, it pops out of compressor DVD ready looking exactly correct at 4:3.
There's a lot of instruction on creating graphics, but not much for what to do with what you already have. I might post a recipe in this forum.

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when I use jpegs as part of the video, when the video is exported and I watch the video, the jpeg are warped (elongated, squished) I've tried everything I know and can't seem to get FCP to stop doing it. Any ideas?

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////END

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I am getting same prb with kRasterizeARGB also.

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Yeah dude, that totally makes sense.
"I notice blocking... that... really is a function of lighting..."
Is that some sort of new-age yet-unheard-of phenomenon? If so, please elaborate by all means.
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