Thanks, I have my default project settings as PAL widescreen in Vegas - not sure if there are any other aspect ratio preferences elsewhere. I tried the export in WMV format and it exported as 4:3 with black bars on the top and bottom. This at least played in the correct ratio but only as a smaller rectangle in the centre of a widescreen TV as it thought the black bars were part of the 4:3 video.

If the clips are to play on a widescreen plasma screen which method would work best - the square pixel and change the resolution so that ### : ### = 16:9 or setting the pixels to be wider. The widescreen plasma display is 'powered' by a computer ouput - so would it use square pixels?

Thanks - and Turn Media, when you say you Render to AVI then other formats, how would you change a PAL DV Widescreen rendered video into a smaller widescreen format (e.g. WMV)

Cheers