Video Stretched when Rendered

I created a photo montage with stills in CS3. Then I opened the project in CS4 and it looks fine. But when I render any part of it, it gets stretched vertically to appx twice the correct height. Any ideas? It's all HD 1440x1080 30p. I noticed that the CS3 project has these Video Rendering settings:
File Format: I-Frame only MPEG-2
Compressor: I-Frame only MPEG
While the CS4 project has the Preview File Format set to Microsoft AVI with a codec of DV (24p Advanced). If I try to change this setting to "I-frame only MPEG" and then try to configure it, CS4 shuts down.

sneedbreedley wrote:
My preset in CS3 is HDV 1080p30. The stills were taken from videotaping photos with my SONY Z5U camcorder. I believe they are 1920x1080p.
So you were using 1920 source in a 1440 preset. You then did frame grabs to create the stills? How did yo do that? You may be exporting to yet a different format.
So, rather than reverse engineering your whole workfflow; it would be easier to examine the actual source being used in the new project. Can you provide the details on the actual assets being used? IN CS4 it is very easy to create a new sequence in the same project with the correct aspect ratio; assuming that is the problem. But we are still shooting in the dark since we dont know the details of your assetts.

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