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I edited a movie in Final Cut Express, and it plays fine in widescreen in that program. When I export it as a Quicktime, however, it then will only play in 4:3 ratio. I import it to iDVD & it wont play in widescreen either.
(Also... when in Final Cut Exp, how to I change the aspect ratios from anamorphic to 4:3 & vice versa. Just for future reference & to make sure everything is right.)

Is there any way to do this without buying Quicktime Pro?
I've tried exporting using the Quicktime Conversion, then burning to DVD using iDVD. I've tried it using different methods and every time it creates video that looks good when there's little movement, but anytime something moves quickly on the screen, the area around the movement is pixelated and you can see lines around it. The only way I seem to be able to get good, clean movement on my video is by using exporting as a Quicktime movie, but then it stretches my widescreen footage horizontally to a fullscreen image. Is there no way to export other than using the "Quicktime Movie" method to get rid of this blur? Or is buying Quicktime Pro the only way to get rid of these annoying lines AND have a widescreen image? It seems kind of ridiculous that I'd have to buy ANOTHER piece of software to do this. FCE should be able to handle this, shouldn't it? Or is this an intentional thing to require consumers to drop a little extra coin on another piece of software?

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