Why do I get black bars in my .mov file (AME CS4)?

Hi
I got a .wmv. It has the size 720*540. Everything is fine. No black bars
Except ... I need the file as a .mov.
When I encode it in AME and choose Quicktime I get black bars in the right and the left sides of the movie.
In AME I can see that my source and my output sizes are not the same. The output size is only 720*480, but I can't change it to 720*540.
What can I do to get rid of the black bars?
Thank you for any help you may provide.

As Jim's answer indicates, some codecs enforce specific dimensions. Most relevant here is the fact that codecs intended for television are strictly constrained to the sizes for television standards. You have chosen an NTSC (National Televison Standards Council) codec in the Video Codec menu, which gives a rather strong hint that this is one such constrained codec.

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