Send to Speedgrade morphed aspect ratio

So I sent a part of my project from Adobe Premiere to Speedgrade.  In Premiere it is 16:9, when it gets to Speedgrade, it is 3:4.  I first deleted the files and re-sent it to see if it was just a mishap, but it happened again.  There is the force aspect ratio button that I can hit and I can set it to display at the correct aspect ratio, but I rendered out a test video to see if it would keep the 16:9 and it did not, so that is not a solution.  Unfortunately I can't figure out why it changed to 3:4 in the first place.

Because you are using non square pixel images. Sure.
For export a correct image with square aspect ratio is necessary to use a Pan&Scan adjust layer (use scale and crop parameters according the format what you want).

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