Cropping in QT Pro

I wish to remove stripes of width 8 pixels from the left and right sides of some NTSC DV footage. I want the resulting video to have its dimensions reduced the same amount. i.e. from 720 x 480 to 704 x 480.
I have followed the advice in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1050269
Namely, I made a mask with 8 pixel stripes on each side, and set it in the "Visual Setting" property. However, this just resulted in transparent stripes on the left and right, but the video dimensions were the same. Therefore, when I exported the movie to a new file, the edges remained (in fact, they became white).
How can I actually crop the dimensions of the footage in QT Pro?
Thanks for any help.

Do you really have to be able to do your cropping in QT Pro? MPEG Streamclip (free if you are a Mac user) would be much easier. Simply set the final desired frame dimension, check the cropping box, enter amount to crop from top, left, bottom, and right edges, and if amount of crop does not match desired frame dimensions, the check the scale box to rescale to desired frame size. Preview your settings for a portion of your file and then proceed to final processing.

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