Render HDV Comp to DV AVI (AE CS3)

I have a comp I made with an HDV clip - the comp is set to the HDV specs.
I want to export this comp from After Effects to a DV AVI - 720 x 480 Widescreen (1.2 Image Aspect Ratio).
Can someone tell me what settings I need to change in the render que to accomplish this?
Thanks
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Thanks for the response guys.
I have one more question. If my Comp is set to DV Widescreen (720 x 480 - 1.2) and I want to render it in square pixels - how can I change the size of the output when going to quicktime? I know with Adobe Media Encoder from Premiere Pro CS3 I can select the specific pixels - however I'm not sure how to do it using the render queue in AE CS3.
I'd like to export it to 640 x 360 pixels.
Thanks!

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