Widescreen footage input to Premiere, output is standard and squished

[chixwithtrix]

I shot some footage with a Canon XL 2 in widescreen. I uploaded it into Premiere 1.5 and worked with the footage in the timeline and it looked fine. When I went to look at me newly rendered video...it was not in widescreen but in standard size and everything was squished.

My question is how can I get the render to be in widescreen from the output?

I am already late getting the video produced, so help would be much appreciated!
Thanks

 

[Akribie]

Did you use a standard widescreen project setting?

If you exported to file rather than played out to TV/tape, did you set up a widescreen export setting?

 

[chixwithtrix]

sorry, I figured the problem out