640x480 forced to 720x480 causing blurry video

Ok, after a few head bangers, the issue fo the blurry seems to come form the fact that PRE does not (not that I can find) allow for a start up template to be 640x480?
So what does this mean? It means that the clostest I can get is 720x480 and any video shot at 640x480 is going to be stretched to 720 wide, causing the video to instantly be blurred!
Under the Interpret Footage (Organize > Project > Right-Click Footage) I can change the Pixel Aspect Ratio, but there is NOTHING that models the 640x480 format?
So I created an image that is 720x480 on CS4 and inserted it. This image has boundary markers for a 640x480 center.
I then lay in the 640x480 video clip and nothing is lining up?
Both are resized and both are becoming blurry because of this resizing?
Please advise.

If you've got your Monitor zoom magnification set to 100%, you are indeed seeing a 720x480 pixel image, cs. Remember, your computer monitor is likely set to something like 1280x960 or something -- so 720x480 is only about 1/4 of that screen real estate.

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