WIDESCREEN MOTION PROJECT NOT WIDESCREEN IN FINDER PREVIEW (HENCE IN DVDSP)

Howdy folks,
This seems like an easy one but I haven't been able to figure it out after a long time of trying and internet searching.
I have a Motion project with the following "project properties":- Preset: 1080i50; Width 1440; Height: 1080; Pixel aspect ratio: (HD 960*720, 1440*1080).
This is a widesreen project and looks so in the Motion canvas window. However, when I find the file in Finder and click on it once to get the little preview, it is not in widescreen and in fact looks distorted to my eye (squashed).
I get the same playback if I open the file using Quicktime. More pertinently, I get the same plackback when I import the file directly into DVD Studio Pro, which is what I want to do.
I hope you folks can help.
Cheers,
Grateful Bob

On my system, a Motion project @ 1440x1080 plays back thin in the Finder but correctly in DVD SP. If it's wrong in DVD SP, make it into a Track, then force that Track to be 16:9 Letterbox with the Inspector. This will only apply to an HD-DVD, of course; for SD you'll need to be downconverting.
In SD, the problem is slightly different (and this applies to the other poster here): you want to tick the "anamorphic" checkbox in the FCP browser to make sure your assets are interpreted correctly.
The behind-the-scenes 1440x1080-to-1920x1080 trickery that many codecs use is very much like the anamorphic trickery in SD, but we don't need to know much about it because all the HD resolutions should be interpreted as 16:9.

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