Aspect Ratio Messed Up? Black Bars?

Greetings folks,
I'm trying to make a SD DVD from 1080p footage. I used Apple's Compressor to make 720x480 m2v and ac3 files for a few short clips I am putting on the DVD.
I'd like to use a Button transition when I click to view a certain clip (a 3 second video) that plays before the main clip.
However, since Encore doesn't allow you to use two separate files (an audio and a video file) for a Button transition, I've tried simply importing a high quality 1920x1080 video file into encore from AME.
The problem is that the Button transition video has black bars on the side, and I've tried my hardest to figure out why it is doing this. I've even tried exporting from AME at 720x480, and Encore persists in placing these black bars on the side.
If I export a ac3 and m2v from Compressor (or a wav with AME) I can only use the audio or the video for the Button transition. I want both.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I'd like all my videos, including my Button transitions, to fill the screen.

Hi Stan,
Thank you for your reply, I'll explain more in depth what my issue is.
I used Compressor for the DVD files because I'm more familiar with it.
However, since a Button Transition only allows you to select one file, I exported a high quality Quicktime file 1920x1080 and imported that into Encore with the assumption it would transcode during the burning process.
I exported this file from Adobe Media Encoder from a timeline directly from Premiere, and tried a number of combinations. I tried selecting "scale to fill" or "stretch to fill" and even exported at 720x480 (the supposed dimensions of the DVD in Encore) but this generated a "wrong pixel aspect ratio" error.
I couldn't do "Transcode Now" on the file because apparently the "asset was not in use" even though it was serving as a transition.
Is there a way to apply "scale to fill" in Encore? Is it something you do in the transcode settings for the project?

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