[John Parker]

yeah mate, understood all that. my problem is the actual exporting, i dont know how to make sure the export (maybe i need to choose particular settings somwhere) stays in the 16:9 ratio rather than falling into the 4:3 or 1:1 wahtever it is. so that when i open in quicktime or winmedia it comes up looking just like it did in premier.

all the editing was done in 16:9 sd pal so far as the premier stuff is concerned. the funny thing is that whenever i export to encore it somehow compensates for that weird ratio output and makes sure it stays in 16:9.

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