Media Encoder CS4 doesn't stretch video

I have a 720x576px clip (anamorphic), which I want to encode
into a flv with the right aspect ratio (720x405px). In the new
flash media encoder, you have three settings.
- Scale to fit
- Black borders
- Change output size
But none of those settings allows me to stretch the video to
the right aspect ratio, I always get the file with 720x405, but
black borders left and right.
Check the screenshot here.
Is this a bug?
Nortau
Screenshot

he video has a pixel aspect ratio different from 1:1. that is
because it is broadcast material, therefore it would be either
anamorphic or 1:1.067. so the video IS stretched and to convert it
to 1:1 pixel aspect ratio i must stretch it to the correct
proportions (4:3 or 16:9). Since AME (or any other software for
that matter) don't seem to embed/read the pixel aspect ratio of
files, i would have to go in after effects to edit the video to the
right proportions. we are a post production facility with loads of
video material to encode, and it would take us a lot of time to go
through an editing software for each video file, especially when we
could do it before with flash media encoder without problems.
taking away the possibility to stretch the video wasn't a
great usability choice from my point of view; the user should be
able to choose to do this if they want to do so and they know what
they are doing.
Another isue i noticed is that when you crop video material
the encoded result is blurry. this seems to be because the video is
first scaled down to the final size, then cropped, then scaled up
again to fit the output size. this is definitely a bug.

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