Video looks compressed/ squashed...

Dear All
I generated a 16:9 movie using FCE4. My output file is a quicktime movie format with HD720 format. When I played the file, there were the 2 black bars on the top and bottom. Moreover the video looks compressed/ squashed.
May I know
1) How do I remove the 2 black bars at the top and bottom?
2) Remove the squash look in the video?
Looking forward to your replies.
Jojos

Managed to resolved it. I created a new project and imported the clip again. I believe the reason is because I did not specify the format at the beginning of importing in my first project. I did so for the second and there weren't any issue.
Question:
May I ask also what's the difference between Export using Quicktime and Quicktime conversion. I noticed that exporting using Quicktime function is a lot faster but the file size is huge (1GB) vs Quicktime conversion which is only about 200Mb.
Jojos

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