480x270 still squeezed

I'm experimenting with Compressor right now, but am wondering about a setting. I need to upload my movie to IMDb and their parameters are Quicktime 480x360 at 30fps. Of course 480x360 results in a squeezed image so I'm trying to output my original 16x9 file (980x720) to a Quicktime movie file to the suggested 480x270 size. Even after padding the top and bottom 45, I'm still getting an image that is slightly squeezed. Am I missing something? Thanks!

i was told back in 6.02 that i needed to do this in photoshop anyway. it's been my workflow. perhaps something that can be submitted to fcp suggestions.

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