Container for video

Hi to everybody,
this is my first post here in the forum,
so any help will be highly appreciate.
I'm wondering if there is any way in Premiere CC to put a clip into a 'container', a 'frame' so I can move it without needing to crop.
For example in InDesign I can put an image into a frame and if the image is larger than the frame it will be automatically cropped.
The visible part of the image is the one within the frame.
My goal, as I have to work with several clips on the same frame, is to create a grid of 'frames' then put inside each frame the clip I need and move it as I want.
Hope to find a solution,
Thanks in advance,
Matt

Hi Mattia 13,
I understand what you're asking for but unfortunately the answer is no, Premiere Pro does not have an easy tool to do what you're asking for, which is a real shame since it's a very common editing situation.
I've requested such a tool years ago but most requests for intelligent additions to Premiere seem to fall on deaf ears at Adobe.
What I requested was this: an intrinsic 'Crop' tool that appears above the intrinsic Motion settings in the Effect Controls Window. This would give users an intelligent and easy way of cropping the dimentions of the 'window' or 'frame' through which the clip could be freely positioned, resized, rotated, etc. You can achieve the same result by using the Track Matte effect, but it's far far more work than the solution I suggested to Adobe, since years later, the Track Matte effect remains broken, and thus requires nested sequences to get it to work the way you suggest.
The best thing to do is send you Feature Request here: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish and pray that Adobe will listen.

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a.
I should had expressed myself differently.
No, I have not monitored CPU usage because it is the hard drive which limits how fast my laptop works.
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