Widescreen Quick Time movie made in iPhoto

I have made a widescreen Quick time movie in iPhoto by exporting it to the desktop. It's 1500x660. Works great when played in Quick Time player on the wide screen TV from my computer. When I import it into iDVD, it shows ok in preview(with a note that says widescreen preview). When I burn it to a DVD it comes out skued and elongated. What can I do to prevent this?
Meatball

Fshippy,
I am puzzled by your statement : "you should be using iLife 06"
I recently finished a project containing:
1 iMovie 4:3
1 iMovie 16:9
90 pictures slideshow (2:3)
I used iLife 05.
I produced a DvD containing three chapters: one for each film and one for the slideshow.
The result is as follows when played on my set-top:
The DvD intro is in widescreen (I defined it that way) my TV-set switches to widescreen when the DvD starts, then the DvD menu comes up in aspectratio 4:3 (that's correct as there are no standard themes in 16:9)
when I play the films:
The 4:3 plays correctly
When I play the 16:9 film my TV-set switches automaticcaly to 16:9, this film plays correctly. When finished TV switches back to the menu 4:3
When I play the slideshow it plays without any distortion of the images.
As the originator talks "widescreen" I am not sure if he means 16:9 or HD.
Anyway, I don't experience any problems in bringing widescreen (16:9) to DvD using iDvD
Are you indeed specifiacally refering to HD or also to widescreen (16:9) ?
I did not produce HD sofar.
Ben

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