How do you crop a video in the current Blender Video Editor? How do you correctly crop a video in blender and remove all resulting blank space that appears along the side of the video?

I have already applied the &quot;Crop&quot; and &quot;Offset&quot; options in the video transform settings, but that results in the blank space shown in the attached image. I found a tutorial that shows you can modify the render dimensions to remove the space (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2MVqRYUatI), but the interface is outdated and if you update the dimensions in the &quot;Output&quot; panel, all it does is scale the video resolution down (not actually changing the dimensions).
Does anyone know how to crop a video and remove blank bar on the side?
If you want to change the resolution of the project to fit your image, select the image strip, and select this: