Is it possible to customize aspect ratio?

I have a video of scrolling text that I want to project across the top of the back wall of a theater for a performance, like supertitles (or surtitles) at the opera. Very wide, very short, like a row of text. so the aspect ration needs to be something crazy like 11:1. I made the video in final cut/live type, but can't find a way to customize the aspect ratio and every program I find online that can crop out the black area without information RESIZES the **** thing to a standard format. this is so easy with a photo. Is this possible? can I do it in final cut or something I can find online? or do i need something like isadora?
btw, i have the image running through a trip-head converter running from my computer, so it's acting like a display with a ratio of something like 48:9, so If i could get the file to a very wide aspect ratio it would totally work.
thanks for your help!

Pl see MOS Doc 420518.1 - section 10

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Hey, Mark. Thanks for your time.
Forgot to mention, it's interlaced. Good thing you included suggestions for both, though.
What makes you think the source content is 1440x1080? I'm quite sure it's 1920x1080, as it's the number given everywhere. I tried the H.264 Blu-Ray format, but it once again gave me the black bars both with 1440x1080 and 1920x1080. The 1920x1080 one was closer to the truth.
So the problem still stands, any further suggestions would be much appreciated.
*edit*
Here is example of footage incase some of you want to try it out with your own encoders.
http://users.metropolia.fi/~samposi/HDV_1957.MP4

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Nick Holmes wrote:
What you have there is a mess.
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