Thanks for the interest Tothetop. No cropping was necessary. It looks like when datits captured it, it went from widescreen to full screen, or 16:9 to 4:3. That gave it a "squished from the sides" effect. So with AVS I used a custom frame size for the conversion. I kept the width the same at 720 pixels and changed the height from 576 to 408. So now it became squished from the top and bottom back to a 16:9 widescreen format.
You can find the program fairly easy by doing a Google search. But like most everything else, only the trial version is free. I'd recommend trying it out. But the trial version puts a small logo right in the middle of the vid every 10 seconds or so.
Hopefully we'll see some more of this stunning Sarah. Thanks again to Froepaly and datits for the media.