remove black borders with Handbrake

[whitelighter]

I'm having difficulty removing black borders from an mp4 with Handbrake. I'm a novice. I think I want the image to stretch/distort rather than crop, but I'm also wondering if it thinks that the black borders on the top and bottom are part of the picture, so maybe a crop would work better? Bizarrely, in my first attempt, the black borders had shrunk to an acceptable width, but later when I re-opened it, it had reverted back to wide borders. I've attached an image of the dimensions tab. Can someone tell me what values to enter?


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[davexnet]

It looks like you have a 16:9 video inside a 4:3 frame.
If you allow it to crop, you can either encode as-is, 1440x812, or resize it down slightly to 720p - 1280x720
or resize it up to 1920x1080

[whitelighter]

Thanks. I tried all three of those settings, but there's still a thin black border at the top and bottom.

[davexnet]

Thanks. I tried all three of those settings, but there's still a thin black border at the top and bottom.

???

Then increase the crop amount by 2 pixels top and bottom by setting cropping to "custom" and adjusting the sizes manually

[whitelighter]

Ok thanks, problem solved.