[Mythago]

If you are exporting to DVD from within Premiere Pro, it doesn’t seem to want to burn a 23.976 frame rate. But, Premiere Pro will export to MPEG2-DVD, or even DV AVI, which you can put into Encore and it will create a 23.975 fps progressive DVD correctly. That will preserve the “film look” you are probably trying for.

As far as being able to use a 16:9 aspect ratio on 4:3 footage that has been letterboxed: that’s a question I’d like answered to. How is it done? Can it be done? I would like the film I’m working on to display 16:9 on a widescreen tv, and let a normal tv display it letterboxed.