Quicktime Widescreen Export....

Can someone explain to me why when I export a widescreen Quicktime file, and play it back using Quicktime, it always opens up in a 4x3 window that isn't stretched for 16x9? And the image looks squeezed.
Am I missing something? I can get a Quicktime file that will create a 4x3 image with a letterboxed image of my video, but I can't make one that is full framed 16x9.

>Problem solved.
Closing ones eyes to Mac/QT does not solve anything and recommending not using it is simplistic and un workable for many thousands of film makers.
Working cross platform with the "big boys" in top facilities involves a little more flexibility and effort than found with a simple DV tape based workflow.
New workflows for delivery of high end content for broadcast and serious fx processing are file based and working with creatives (usually Mac based) also challenges us in this regard.
I also have clients that request QTs so they need to be acommodated as well and if they want a QT...thats what they get and pay for.
Where's the problem? (It works fine for me and all of my colleagues)
*Admit I am one of the few in a Windows environment and the only one using Premiere but thats the point. I need QT to be able work with them. Not the other way around.

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I just exported a movie for iPhone from QuickTime using Export for web. I get a question mark.
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= = =
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This is what I would normally expect in QT 7 Pro if the "scaled" clip has a changed "Current Size."
The second oddity was that if I scaled the movie during the export, I got a file that was the same size as the unscaled movie... In the other, I imported the full sized images sequence into Quicktime and set the smaller size with the size dialog during movie export.
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Earlybird is exporting H264 ... the Key Frames setting is determining the GOP length. This value should really be determined based on the complexity of the video, to my understanding, the actual frame rate has no bearing on it. If you have very complex fast moving content then a low Key Frame rate is advisable to ensure good image quality (although it will adversely affect the filesize) whereas if you have slow moving or static content (like an interview subject) then a higher Key Frame rate will still produce a good image but at a smaler filesize. The default of 24 should be pretty much fine as a catchall starting point.
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As to why these files go bad? That I don't know. Why do Preferences get corrupted? That I don't know either but it definitely happens :-(
Cheers
Andy

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