Help! DVX100b in fcp: squeeze, resize, or crop

CritUnitB

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Okay. I've messed around with things a lot more and though most my hair is gone and I've ground my teeth to nubs, these are the questions I have:

I have a DVX100bp, brand new. I use FCP 5. I know there's no native 16:9 for this camera but I'm stubborn. Surely someone must know the best way to accomplish the wide look. The three ways I keep hearing are squeeze mode, standard 4:3 (which is then resized to 133.33% using motion in a widescreen sequence), and less common, creating a nonstandard 720x320 sequence and keeping the standard 4:3 image at normal size, in effect just "cropping" it.

I shoot in standard 24p, capture in 29.97 and edit on the same timebase. Do I capture/edit in progressive mode or not? I keep seeing horrible interlace lines on the resize and crop methods, and I don't know if I am doing something wrong or this just comes with the territory. If someone knows the best method for standard 24p at 16:9 could you walk me through it?

Finally, all of this is going to be web-based on the far end. Whenever I export any widescreen file, it comes out 4:3 all smashed. How do I get the file to play widescreen? This is very important for download. I know that's a lot of questions but my first shooting day is tomorrow and I'm going nuts. Thanks.
 
Double-posting to the board with the same question in different places is called spamming. And, why not try the search function first before "having someone walk you through it." This topic has been HAMMERED TO DEATH around here.
 
I apologize, I have a deadline and am a bit frantic.

Also if it's been "hammered to death," why does no one have a clear answer? If you read, I have very specific questions regarding the topic and that "walk me through it" stuff was only in the instance that I am completely off-base with my questions. I don't think that's unreasonable.
 
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