Batch process to crop odd-sized photos

Am I hoping to do the impossible?
I have photos sized 667 X 1000 I wish to crop to 200 X 400
without distorting them. My idea is to import them into a blank
canvas of 500 X 1000, save, then batch resize them to 200 X 400. Is
there a way to batch process the importing / saving step? Obviously
some of the initial photo will be cropped, but if I could set it to
top align and center the width in the blank canvas 95% of my photos
should be fine. I could then manually re-crop the photos that are
cut-off strangely.
Any suggestions? I have almost 1000 photos. TIA.

MichaelTeoh wrote:
I want to crop away 5px from each edge of each picture which would then end up being 390x590px, 350x470px and 590x790px respectively.
Example:
Picture 1 : 400 x 600px    = 400:600 = 4:6 = 2:3
Picture 2 : 360 x 480px    = 36:48 = 6:8 = 3:4
Picture 3 : 600 x 800px   = 3:4
So you can record the three action to center crop your images to the 2:3 and 3:4 aspect ratios shown in your examples then use image size to size them you three example pixel sizes then use canvas size to to trim the 5 px of the border, just set the canvas to you three sizes 390x590px 350x470px and 590x790px do not check relative and leave the anchor point in the center. Five pixels will be trimmed form all sides. Any image that started with the correct 2:3 or 3:4 aspect ratios will not be cropped by the first crop only the canvas size crop will trim pixels.
To handle both Portrait and Landscape image the action would need to record a fit image step instead of the image size step a fit image step fit to longest side need to be recorded and the canvas size would need to be recorded to trim both width and height by a relative -10px.   My AspectRatioSelection plugin will automatically orient the aspect ratio recorded to the images orientation.

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