Thanks for the reply.  The import is the same as the export.  In fact, I can export it fine when I don't use the zoom tool, but when I use the zoom tool, it frames another section.  I've played around with the zoom tool settings and imported different movies but am still getting the same problem.

So what I am seeing now is that I'll play the movie and then go back to the program.  The screen will be black and I'll tap on the movie down below to see it in the frame (it's not selected).  For a split second, the Section/Zoom window will be in a different position on the frame (for instance, very small and in the right hand corner - similar to what the exported movie was) and then it will pop back into the larger area that I originally framed.  It's strange because the preview that I do, always has it in the position that I put it in. 

Is this only happening on export?

I have a video that I am using the zoom feature (Zoom to) and the key-frames many times (the capture was not well done, so I am trying to keep the object I zoom into to be in the center).

When I export this, it is coming out ok.

Can you tell me the file type you are using, the size and ratio?

I want to see if I can reproduce this so I understand better.
 

I'm getting this same problem (sort of)! I posted a new question for it myself, waiting on answers now.

But what happens is I export, and the part I cropped is a zoomed in version, like it took a smaller section and zoomed it! I was doing split screen for a skit.

The preview shows it just fine, and I've done this before. But I bought the latest Movie Edit Pro (17), and since all the settings were at default (like I assumed the trial version was), I have NO idea why this is happening and how to fix it. I import the videos as 720p and export as that size as well... :(

My section editing did the same thing. I fixed it. No longer will my cool, awesome previews get ruined when I export them, showing zoomed footage of the clip /clips I section. It works because I tested it in a new project and exported it perfect. I opened original project and did it there too with the previous clips. You know how I did it? Is the suspense killing you? ......drum roll..........."reset program settings to default" that's it. Somewhere down the road my section zoom got wacky. I don't know what I did and tried hard to adjust the problem, but when I reset program settings to default. and tested it. It worked. May the show go on!

......drum roll..........."reset program settings to default" ... and tested it. It worked. May the show go on!

Awesome - thanks a lot! This bugs workaround helped me to save more hours of looking around and testing!