Quicktime export looks squashed.

I imported several powerpoint slides converted to jpegs at 720X540. The pixel aspect ratio was square. The final destination for this presentation is youtube so i'm assuming that I want square pixel output in FCP. Everything looks fine in FCP but quicktime export ends up short and fat.
Help me, I 'm a noob.

You need to understand how fcp and digital video works. Digital video has rectangular pixels, digital graphic files for computers use square pixels. A standard NTSC DV sequence in FCP is 720x480 with rectangular pixels. If you want this to display correctly on a computer screen you need to distort it to 720x540. While you are working within fcp, everything looks fine. And when you edit a 720x540 file into a 720x480 sequence, fcp will adjust it automatically. So the trick is when you export your final sequence from fcp to alter the pixel dimensions so they are correct, for example 720x540.

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