Aspect Ratio Help

[tehlime.livejournal.com]

I am completely tone deaf when it comes to aspect ratio issues, but my beta has been kind enough to point out that mine are wrong, and after some research I have run out of ideas for how to fix it. I'm using Vegas 9, and when I export my videos, they are all a little bit stretched vertically. My beta discovered you can fix this manually after the fact (once the video has been rendered) in VLC by going to "Video", "Aspect Ratio", and selecting 16:9. Here are two screen caps to demonstrate the difference:

The initial video.

And a shot after I manually set it to 16:9...

I have the project set to NTSC DV Widescreen, and I have the "maintain aspect ratio" switch unchecked. I've tried exporting it as different file types, but none of them seem to help. The pictures above are from when I export it as a .wmv file. Does anyone know why this is happening, and what I can do to fix it? Help!

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[tehlime.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that isn't the issue. I've fiddled with the project settings, though not quite the way you mentioned. But they're fine. I think it has something to do with the rendered footage. Like I said, I've fiddled around with the program settings, but nothing is working. Thank you for your suggestions though! I really appreciate it. :)