Should I Crop PAL 4:3 Videos to 16:9 in Topaz Video AI?

You have physically 4:3 squeesed content, made to “width-strecht” to 16:9 when play? may check here I wrote something about that.

Forget TVAI crop when you can’t achieve desired result then use for example Virtualdub2, where you can letterbox free scale/stretch first and then crop.