Black bars (letterboxing) on images added to PSE 12

I'm trying to make a video in PSE12 out of downloaded DSLR stills with preset at 1080P / 30fps, but all my stills come in letterboxed. Resizing in PS12 only offers pixels or percent ---- and width height and dpi.
How do I get rid of the letterbox / black bars--- which preset should I use in PSE12 --- I think I've tried them all with no luck.

Jerry Miller
The answers are in those photos pixel dimensions. 4928 x 3264 is 3:2. And, your Premiere Elements 12 project is 1920 x 1080 16:9. The puzzling part is that you seem to say that you have tried your photos as 1920 x 1080 and still have the black borders problem.
Let us go through a check list as well as cross check information to make sure that we are in sync with the details.
What program are you working with? Photoshop Elements 12 or Premiere Elements 12.
From the onset you refer to PSE12. Typically that is used to represent Photoshop Elements 12. PE12 is the typical representation for Premiere Elements 12 for those who do abbreviations. Please verify that you are working or not working solely in the Premiere Elements 12 Windows Expert workspace.
Is Photoshop Elements 12 or the Elements Organizer 12 involved in any of this? Or is this solely a Premiere Elements 12 matter?
Check List
1. When you resized your 4928 x 3264 3:2 to 1920 x 1080 16:9, how did you do that? Are you sure that you did not end up with 1440 x 1080 4:3 instead of 1920 x 1080 16:9.
After you import your 1920 x 1080 16:9 into your 1080p Premiere Elements project, right click its thumbnail in Project Assets and select Properties. Does the Properties readout show 1920 x 1080 or something else?
2. Open a new Premiere Elements project Expert workspace
a. Edit Menu/Preferences/General and make sure there is a check mark next to "Scale Default to Frame Size".
b. Then manually set your project preset to NTSC/DSLR/1080p/DSLR 1080p30@ 29.97
c. Import your confirmed 1920 x 1080 16:9 photo into the project with Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets from where you drag it to the Timeline.
How many of these photos are going into this 1080p project?
Let us focus in on the above. There is no way to get black borders for a 1920 x 1080 16:9 photo going into a 1080p project.
Thanks.
ATR

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