Problem with exporting to Quicktime

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I've been googling for about an hour and I think I might have the answer for this question, but I want to make sure I won't go about solving it incorrectly and just want to confirm the problem is what I think...

I shot with my DVX100 in 24pa, and everything gets into FCP properly and looks good (I do the advance pulldown and so on), but once I export the fully rendered footage into an .mpeg file, upon playing it in Quicktime there are TWO vertical black bars on the left and right sides of the image, and the image is 'fat' and stretched out despite this.

I'm figuring it has something to do with either square pixellation or 16:9 vs. 4:3 issue, but I don't know how to correct either of those problems as of now; I just suspect that that's where the problem lies.

Any takers? Thanks in advance!
David

p.s. - while I do not own an anamorphic lens, I'd love to ideally convert the 4:3 over to widescreen, and one of the stickied posts on these boards gives a guide for doing so, but it seems that exporting the footage as .tiff files is a prerequisite... so I guess that'd be part two of this question, although an answer for part two isn't as vital as an answer for part one.
 
How exactly are you exporting from Final Cut Pro to your MPEG? Are you using Compressor? If so, what preset are you using? Or are you exporting a quicktime movie and then dragging that into DVD Studio Pro and letting it do the encoding?

Compressor should read everything fine for you. Just use Export > Using Compressor. Then pick the correct preset. If you didn't shoot squeeze mode then don't chose a 16x9 preset (even if that's something you'd wish to have). If you shot pure 4x3, then use a 4x3 preset (worry about going to 16x9 later).

cheers.
 
I'm choosing the Export > Quicktime Movie option. I haven't worked with DVD Studio Pro or the Compressor - I'm not trying to get this onto a DVD, I'm just trying to make it so that I can play it on a computer without the vertical black bars on the left and right.

I tried to look through DVD Studio Pro and exporting with the Compressor, but nothing changes. It just creates various audio files and the video retains the same problem regardless of whether I choose 4:3, 16:9, letterbox, etc. I'm just trying to get rid of these black bars.

As for David's question, I'm exporting to .mpeg because it's a video file and it's the only video file option I see.
 
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