Taping a 16:9 FCP Video to a Videocamera

I went to tape my 16:9 video to a videocamera (thinking that it would work the same as taping a 4:3 video), however all it did was freeze on the frame that was showing in the canvas. Is there anyone who knows a way to get it to work, or any other ways to export the 16:9 video while keeping the highest possible quality. I have to supply it to a post production house.
Thanks
Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Open FCP
Go Final Cut Pro > Easy Set-Up
Choose DV-PAL Anamorphic
Create a new sequence
Edit one of your original clips into this sequence
Click in your time line (with this new sequence) and hit Command-ZERO.
Take note of the sequence settings.
Close this window.
Try to export to your video camera.
If you original footage was DV (shot on the camcorder in question) this should work.
When you edited you footage into your custom sequence, FCP probably tried to help you by adjusting the footage to fit into the sequence. To find out...
Open your edit
Double click on a sequnce clip.
Click in the Motion tab.
Look around for numbers that are not at the defaults, specifically scaling, distortion, and aspect ratio.
For comparison look at the Motion tab of the same clip when you open it from the browser.
If there are differences, and you need to recover the edit this way, correct one clip at the begining of your edited sequence, and then use paste motion attributes liberally, being careful not to negate any effects work you did. As a matter of fact, you may have to re-do some of your effects work.
DV 25 is DV (consumer,) DVCPro, and DVCam. 25 refers to the data rate of 25 mega bits per second – about 3.6 MBytes/sec.
Their is also DV 50 and DV 100. DVCPRO50 (DV 50) is believed by some to rival digital beta in visual quality. DVCPRO HD (DV 100) uses four simultaneous DV streams and clever compression to squeeze a very viable HD signal into a small space.
Tom
Power Mac Dual 1.0 GHz G4, Quick Silver   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   1.5 Gig Ram, 250 gig internal drive, 2 x G-Raid500, FW800 Sonnet Card, AJA IO

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