Panasonic HVX clips squished?

When I import 1080i HD clips taken with my Panasonic HVX200 into Shake 4.1, the clips appear "squished" horizontally, in node view and in the viewer. They definitely don't load as 16:9 clips, which they are, and show up as in FCP 6 and Motion 3. Anyone know why they do this and how to correct it? The 16:9 clips included with the Shake Peach Pit tutorial book show up correctly...I'm confused. I even selected the correct setting in the Parameter Format pop-up window...DVCPRO HD 1080i60...no luck.

Shake stretches anamorphic footage horizontally instead of vertically to avoid mixing up field information.
To fix it, go to the Globals tab, then click defaultViewerAspectRatio and change it to the aspect ratio of the footage. I've got a little tool for calculating aspect ratios here:
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/aspect_calc.htm

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Hello out there.
Does anyone ust the Panasonic HVX 2000 and I-Movie 6.0.2?
And if you are using an HVX 200 have you also married it with the Firestore-FS-100?
If so can you help me import DVD-Pro 50 and or dvc-pro HD,
Presently, I am not having much luck.
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thanks in advance for your help.

This might shed some light for you:
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http://www.aulich-adamski.de/en/perm/720p50-capturing-editing-in-final-cut-pro
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Time for you to head on over to the Creative Cow P2 forum and research the archives about this device:
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/newviewposts.cgi?forumid=193
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