compressing/exporting varicam hd footage

exporting/compressing a 720p varicam music video w/ the quicktime 7 lan settings. problem is, it keeps coming out squished vertically. does anybody know the correct compression setting to get it to look letterboxed/16x9? much appreciated.
-dL

Not sure what you are after here.

the 720P file is in fact 720 X 960.
Thats what it is suppsoed to be.

When you look at it in FCP, it gets stretched horizontally to 720 X 1280.

TV stations and DVD players alike all stretch the footage back to 720 X 1280 when you view it but the actual file remains the same.

The same theory goes for 16:9 NTSC or PAL footage.

Letterbox is someting different.
The black bars in the top and bottom you get after fitting a widescreen image into a square box is called letterbox. I dont understand why you would want to do that?

Johan Polhem
Motion Graphics
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