Viedo Suddenly to 16:9 widescreen

I have been working on a project for about two weeks then suddenly when I opened it it's displaying and exporting as 16:9 instead of standard 4:3 video.
Please help...what did I do?
THANKS

What do you mean with "layout"? Every sequence in your project? Nop. That's a sequence settings that affects just the active sequence. Did you cjeck it?
Alberto

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