Ovals & Not Circles

Hi- I have a motion project that's 1920x816 with some circles that originate from a Photoshop file. When I import this into FCP in a sequence it looks fine. I then send it to Compressor using a custom frame size of 720x306 which was suggested to me by another user here. Photoshop, Motion, FCP, and Compressor are all set to square pixels and the circles still look circular all the way down the line until the sequence is compressed, that's when the circles turn out to be ovals.
What am I missing / doing wrong?

Thanks for your reply, well...
my source media is 1920 x 816 and I'm outputting at 720x306 because I'm looking to create still a good sized window for the web, but don't need it as huge as the original. I was told that 720x306 would be the proper size due to the 2.35:1 ratio.

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