19:6 clips into a 4:3 project

Hi
I've trawled the forum for info regarding this in Premiere 8. Most of the information seems to be for making a 4:3 clip widescreen and not the other way around, which is what I'm after in order to make use of some free clips I have.
When I drag a PAL widesceen clip into my 4:3 PAL project, there is obviously a height difference. I have seen mention of a function called 'interpret footage' in some postings, which is accessed by right click on a clip from the media bin. That doesn't show for me and I'm not sure if it's what I need in any case.
Is there a utility in Pr8 to crop a widescreen clip at the edges or make it conform to 4:3?
Thanks for your help and apologies yet again for the newbie nature of these posts.
Craig

Hey Bill.
That's a lovely philosophy you have there :-)
The problem we have here in Egypt is that there are few people like yourself, whom one can turn to in order to share ideas and get support from - simply because there are few other users of applications like this...and certainly none where we are! As you have been so kind in offering me your assistance, when you have the time, perhaps you could share for me (and no doubt countless others who are just finding their feet and will have similar queries) your thoughts and wisdom on these common newbie areas for concern?
In      order to produce high quality videos for the web or perhaps a DVD for an      in house TV channel in a shopping mall, what significant functionality will we miss by only having Adobe Elements and not Pro? Can we      realistically expect to be able to produce small commercial projects that      will stand up in terms of quality with this application or will we always be making compromises?
In      terms of hardware: I have a high spec PC with plenty of RAM and an Nvidea      GT9400 video card. (2.6Ghz processor and 2.5 GB RAM.) What general improvements could      be made to this set up in order to make my video production process smoother?      My system still jitters at times and seems to slow when processing larger      clips – during background rendering mainly.
I      notice that many of the PAL clips I have bought from stock libraries (in      order to get started before I start shooting my own) are of varying      quality and logically the HD videos are of far better quality than the      standard. Therefore should we be aiming where possible to stay in the HD      domain? Either at 16:9 or 4:3 for PAL depending on the project settings you      are working to.
I've      just started experimenting with TITLES in Pr8. There are some great      effects and one can achieve some fairly pro looking results. However I      have noticed that the resolution of the text and some of the backgrounds are      a little lacking in definition. Is this an issue with my screen resolution      or is there anything we can do to sharpen these? I guess my concern is      that if they lack clarity in Pr8, then by the time they end up in a .FLV      file for a website production – they may look even worse.?
I      have a background as a sound engineer as you know – so I understand about      writing music for picture and working with the film. Can you tell us the      best way in Video production to work? Should we build our video first then      add the music to this? Should we record our voice over first and sync our      video to this and then add the music later? Is there no fixed way of      working? Is it s all dependant on the type of project you are working on      and how many music and voice over cues there are to hit?
Bill. Any help will be greatly appreciated and of course – this is not urgent. If and when you have time will be great.
PS - is this you? http://whunt.com/
Best
Craig.

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