Black Bars in Encore

Hi, so I have a video in premiere in 1440x1080 (set it up with square pixels)
When it comes over to encore (720x480) I have thin black bars on the left and right.  Anyway to get rid of these?

3 options.
Leave them.
Stretch the image horizontally to fill, which creates a bit of distortion.
Crop the top and bottom which will stretch horizontally and verticall, so no distortion, and a slight loss of quality.
The problem is that the par conversions are not exact.
I don't do this yet, but I think most users prefer the cropping method.
I forget the exact pixels; someone will chime in with the number.
Other posters: are there other methods?

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