Video (original clip) size question

[agum]

Hello all,

First time coming into these forums.
I am new to video editting. I'm trying to work on a video right now, and there's a problem I'm running into.
I have my original (raw) videos mostly in 720x480 size, and I have some other ones that are in 320x240. (from digital camera)
Is there anything I can do in Premiere Pro to "resize" the smaller ones so that they appear to have the same size as my other videos when putting them together?

I know that the quality will degrade and so on, but I don't really care that much; it's not a professional video, it's more on the personal side. It's fine even if the ratio aspect is twisted a little bit (since 720x480 and 320x240 are not the same ratio). I just want to be able to do it.

Thanks!

 

[agum]

A Google search seems to tell me that this scaling is only possible with Premiere Pro 2.0.
I have Premiere Pro 1.x.
Is there no way to do this? Could anybody recommend an external free software that lets me scale the videos in advance before importing them?
Thanks.

 

[MarkG]

Weird. I'm sure Premiere 6.x would automatically scale video to the project settings when you dropped it onto the timeline. Doesn't Premiere Pro do that?

 

[Red Prince]

Doesn't Premiere Pro do that?

Yes, it does.

 

[agum]

Ok, I found the settings where you can do that, Project Settings -> Scale clips to import.

Unfortunately, I am running into another problem.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=325815&sliceId=1

I was unable to import the .avi files that were from digital still cameras, so I tried the solutions listed. None of them worked.
Renaming or transcoding the video lets Premiere import it, but when I actually use the clip in my video, it becomes really jerky/skips a lot. I suspected it had to do with framerate differences, but I can't figure out how to fix it. Anybody has such experience?

 

[MarkG]

If the frame-rates are different you may have to run it through some external software to convert frame-rates to match. Though I'm sure I managed to do NTSC->PAL conversion in Premiere 6.x before.