When I render a bunch of stills/video to NTSC widescreen MPEG2 and play the clips back on Windows Media Player (or Real's player), the people in clips are stretched. By the way, I used the pan and zoom on all of the images and set it to match my output settings.

Is this stretch problem corrected when I import these clips into DVD Arch. and burn a dvd or will the images remain distorted? Also, I have found that when I either render at 873x480 or 720x405 the images remain as the should (non-stretched). If I render them like this will I have problems later?

What should I do???

Thanks for any assistance.