Setting output aspect ratio

I have a jpeg background with 1080p video scaled down to 16.2% overlayed over it. It also has a powerpoint (jpeg) overlayed on it. The final product is an instructor to the right of the powerpoint discussing his presentation. Everything is square pixels (1.0). My sequence is set to 996x625 the same size of the background .jpg. I need to output it to .mp4. in two sizes. When I set the height in my output settings to 996 and leave it set to maintain the aspect ratio, Premiere changes it to 996x560 and adds vertical letterbox. If I unlink the aspect ratio and change the width to 625 I get a message "Invalid frame size/frame rate for this level. Please lower the video bounds or frame rate, or increase the level and profile and try again"
I also wanted to make a second version reduced by 1/3 which is 664x374. Premiere allows that size, but adds letterboxing. If I am in the same ratio as the original I don't understand why it is letterboxed.
thank you

Projects to tend to go sideways at some point when using oddball sizing...best to stick with some sort of standard if at all possible, not just a random set of dimensions. Video encoders work on video content in blocks (matrixes) and odd numbers just don't fit into that world, as Jim stated.
Perhaps you could create a 720p sequence, copy the content of your curent sequence into it, and rework things a bit to fit? That will also then provide a smooth pathway to smaller "standard" encoding sizes such as 640x360.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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