Brilliant!!! Pure genius!!....thanks for the help Mr. Graham.

boy is my face red
 

ok, so i learned that in order to do a pip effect i need to overlay and resize my clips. ok i thought i knew how to resize my clips but evidently, i dont. any thoughts?

Some tutorials
 

Video Tidbits

Wrigley Video's Premiere 6.0 tutorial

In your monitor window left-click once directly on the image. You should see a boundary box with handles appear. Drag the handles like you would in photoshop or any similar app (i.e left-click again and hold down)

In Premiere Pro at least, you can also open the Effects Control Window and under the "Fixed Effects" section you will see "Motion". This lets you change scale, position and rotation.

disabling import after capture?
 

After capturing with PP1.5 it goes through a song and dance routine while the audio is conformed as the footage is automatically imported. I find this unacceptable and wondered if it can be turned off and how?

If I remember correctly (I'm not using PPro myself) it conforms all
the audio to a higher quality level. This is not something you can
turn off. I was under the impression, however, that it caches the
upsampled audio so it only needs to do this once.

I too can recommend Planet, both for sales and for their training courses.

I have just traded in my old DV500 card for the Matrox RT.X100 with them. I got a free LogicKeyboard for Premiere Pro as part of the deal!

I only had to give them the DV500 card, so I have been able to sell my old Pinnacle and Adobe software, plus the BOB privately.

I got full versions of Premere Pro 1.5, Encore 1.5 and Audition 1.5, complete with printed manuals as part of the package. The Premiere Pro disk is labelled upgrade, but it did not ask for any details of my old Premiere software to install.

ahh yes, thank you barry....oh and thanks david for those links...i think those will help me in the future. thanks again guys

Import DIVX to PPro
 

How can I import a DIVX format file into Premiere Pro 1.5?
It says unsupported format, I can not find any info on this subject.
Thank you

The error message states that you do not have the DivX codec installed.

Can you play the file? If so you have the codec installed. If not,
install it first. If you still can't open the file in PPro it just doesn't
support it.

If so, get www.virtualdub.org and run it. Open your
movie and select under both the video and audio menu full
processing. Then go to file save as and make a new AVI.

If your movie is long the file will be huge, since it saves out as
uncompressed AVI. Just so you know.

It sounds like you are working with a ripped movie. If so, the audio
is probably in VBR MP3 which Virtualdub cannot work with. Get
VirtualdubMod from http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/.

When loading the file it will ask you if you want to compensate,
choose no. Then follow the instructions above. This should give
you a file with video and audio in sync.

If you don't care about the audio then it doesn't matter.

letterbox 16:9 premiere pro?
 

i have footage shot in 16:9. when i letterboxed it in premiere pro by importing the edited clip in a 4:3 project and scaling down by 75% to letterbox it, the footage looked horrible. edges are jagged? is there a better way to letterbox?

thanks.

You should import the footage and right-click and select "maintain
aspect ratio", this should automatically letterbox.

Where and how does this footage look horrible? How and on what
are you judging this?

Even with the codecs working properly Premiere always seems to have trouble with DivX files. I eventually gotten everything working except for perfect audio - though sometimes it doesn't mess it up too much.

Best thing to do is what Rob said and use vdub to process it.