That did the trick. It worked great when I imported it back into the AVID. When I dragged the QT clipped that I exported from my Avid it created a comp sized at 720×486 NTSC D1 with the D1/DV NTSC (0.91) pixel aspect ratio.
Found it. The “seperate fields” box was off…should I have it set to lower field first? Also will I still need to make sure that I select “lower field first” in render settings?