It might be a bit of an old program but perhaps somebody knows how to solve this issue:

I'm doing an hour long video for DVD and I'm doing the master video file in Premiere 6.5.

All the settings for the project up in the project settings dropdown is 16:9 PAL DV, pixel aspect 1.422 (the PAL widescreen selectable). I uncheck the recompress box.

When exporting, I select the exact same settings there, for PAL widescreen and uncheck the recompress box.

When I do a small bit of the movie to test it, the exported file has the right pixel aspect ratio, 1.422.

However, when I do the whole hour long video (which takes 5 hours every time), the final video (with the exact same settings) STILL makes a file with 1.067 pixel aspect ratio. It's been driving me mad.

(Importing this into Nero and making a DVD of that results in a widescreen DVD with the footage ?which should be WIDESCREEN? looking like 4:3 squeezed into the center of the widescreen area, with black bars at the sides and the objects in the image vertically thin.

I've tried reinstalling Premiere 6.5 and re-exporting with different tweaks but it only works as long as I test it with a short piece of the video which is then widescreen, 1.422. As soon as I export all of it, it comes out as 1.067.

People are mad at me because this video needed to be completed two days ago but I simply cannot understand what is wrong and it takes 5 hours (basically all day) to re-export it every time.

Do you have any insight into this issue? Please help if you can!

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