Crop lines on exported video

Hey people!
I'm editing a video on Premiere CS5.5 where i need to use the crop tool on the sides of the original video (to get rid of unwanted elements), use the change color tool to make the background white and then use a white background layer... now i have a problem! when i watch the exported file i can see thin white lines, them being the crop lines... how do i get rid of them?
by the way, if anyone knows a simplier and faster way to do what i intend, which is basically giving a full white background to a video where i have a female model on a yellowish background with unwanted elements on the sides (projectors and stuff) let me know please!
cheers and thanks!
Ivo

as far as I understood, what you are trying too do is remove the background. Instead of replacing the color with white, why not just replace it with transparent? This is best done with a key, for example the build in ultra key is not too bad and is far more flexible than the color replace tool.
Now to get rid of other elements in the background I recomend the garbage mask, which comes with 8 or 16 points.
About the crop tool: in CC there is a great new feature which allows you to feather the edges of the croped images.

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Screencap 1
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I'm far from being an expert, but since no one has replied to you yet, and because I've been helped out here plenty of times, I'll post something and who knows -- it may be the answer.
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