[Mac_Jack]

Hi,

I recently shot a bunch of vacation footage with my Canon ZR300. It has an anamorphic setting which I really enjoy, so all my vacation footage is in letterbox format.

I used Final Cut Express HD to edit it all down. I imported the footage into FCE HD as anomorphic footage. Meaning, all the time during editing the letterbox was preserved.

However, when I export the FCE HD projects, they're saved in non-anamorphic format. All my videos look stretched. Obviously, this stretching happens when I import those projects into iDVD ('04).

My questions are: can FCE HD export in an anomorphic-friendly format, preserving the letterbox effect that was captured at the time of recording? Also, can iDVD ('04 OR '05) import and preserve this anomorphic format?

Thanks,

Mac_Jack

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