Cropping video without distortion

Newish to Compressor - have only used it for the simplest things so far. Now I'm trying to crop video to unconventional sizes and export as squares, nonstandard rectangles, etc. Using the Geometry pane, though, whenever I 'crop' the image is distorted as it compensates to fill the new shape. I'd like to actually CROP OUT parts of the image area, and export a smaller part of the image. Strangely, when I crop from the top or bottom, it seems to look ok, but from the sides, I get distortion. I'm trying to export as MPEG-4; can it be done here?

First you drag the clips that you want into the project from the Event.
Select a clip. Open the Rotate, Crop, Ken Burns Tool.
Then you have two choices.
FIT will place your whole vertically oriented clip into the movie, and will fill in on either side with black bars. (Letterboxing).
CROP will make your vertically oriented video fill the landscape screen by chopping off the top and bottom of your clip.

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