How to crop a video

So we have a wmv file that we are cleaning up using Soundbooth CS4. Don't really have any experience with SB, but it was included with our Creative Suite install so we thought we would give it a go.
We didn't even think we could crop a video, but when we do a "save as..." from the original file there are these crop settings in the export dialog that really seem to suggest that we could. So we select the crop tool, adjust the size, set some of the other properties that we want to change on the other tabs and save as...
And then we get the progress bar and it process and process. And eventually the new file shows up in the files tab. And it is exactly the same size and uncropped.
So are we just not understanding what that is supposed to do? Or does it just not work? Or ... ? ? ?
Thanks for any help.

Soundbooth (and the other applications in the video suite) usually route video through a separate Media Encoder application. I was able to reproduce this issue when cropping video files, but was not able to reproduce this problem in the very latest build of the tool, so it looks like it may be fixed. You might want to try updating the next time that Adobe Updater pops up, hollerin' about updates, and see if that helps.
Okay. While this looks like a simple new paragraph, I've actually been sifting through their bug database and found the bug report. Looks like this was fixed by the team in the last 2 months, so it's unlikely to be fixed in any updates out right now. Sorry you ran into the bug, but thanks for the detailed steps and information.

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