Custom Video Size

I'm new to FCE and I'm stuck on something that is so simple to do in older products like Premiere: I wish to use a custom video size. I have footage captured years ago at 768x576 which I'd like to work with at that resolution, and I've also a need to work at 128x128@15fps. I don't want to go back to Premiere on OS 9 (which does the job with a few clicks) and I don't want to pay the extra for FCP. Is it not possible just to edit the FCE's presets?
Thanks,
Carl
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.9) Size isn't everything...

No, it is not. FCE is a fixed resolution editing application. It only works in DV nd HDV size formats and frame rates.

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OK. So i found a cropping tutorial using QT Pro on YouTube.
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I have three small videos that were recorded at 320x240. Do I need to set up the Premiere project to that size or do I just set that size when I output the final WMV file?
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Custom video sizes dont make sense

The choices for custom sizes to broadcast are
[160x120;240x180;176x144;280x180 etc.]
Now if I broadcast using the 320x180 and play it back in a
320x180 window, the whole thing is squashed. However, in a 320x240
window it looks dandy.
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I just noticed that the view on the encoder is OK, but that
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That is what my feeble memory is telling me too: CS3 was per Project, and the "Custom" was called Desktop Mode, where the attributes could be altered to suit
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But i want to up the creativity of the presentations - at the moment we import the films as mp4 HD QT files and jpegs of the speakers/nominees/titles screens etc. created in Photoshop and put the whole thing together in Keynote on my iPad. It worked a treat and my clients love it!
Now i had a thought and did a test and created Motion graphics versions of the speakers titles and nominees screens in Apple Motion - so that they had an animated section at the start with whoosh audio stingers as they are played and not just stills - and then export them as QT files - import to FCP 7 timeline and export to compresser ready to convert to mp4 for Keynote.
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1024x768 is 4x3. 2048x1536 is 4x3. Both of these are current display dimensions for iPads 1-3.
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Try putting a rectangle in a square. Unless you scale the retangle up and lose image on the sides you will not be able to properly fill the entire 4x3 display area. The easy compromise is letterboxing to ensure all of the rectangle is display in the square. The iPad is doing this with very little effort on your part.
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Anyway i can't seem to figure out how to retain the size of my video as ive got to use a project template, which is great if you are using video from a device but my video is a non standard size. Surely there is a way of doing this?
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Thank you for replying.
Basically I like to fly x-plane flight simulator which gives you the ability to record your flying and outputs the video as a high quality mov. I wanted to use premier elements just to make a movie of different clips and just add a few effects and titles I was just going to output them as fla to watch on my pc or the web. Or as Mpeg 4 to put into powerpoints
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Ive got a sinking feeling ive just wasted £75.

Where is the "Sequence Preset Editor? I need a custom Sequence size.

On Page 1011 of the PDF manual for FCE 4, it says:
"You can also choose to use the existing settings of the clip or
sequence you are exporting, or create customized settings in a custom Sequence
*Preset Editor*." Where is that?
I cannot get any Export mode to output the same resolution size as my screen capture movie is. Its 1036x778 recorded in AIC codec, so FCE likes it fine.
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or create customized settings in a custom Sequence
Preset Editor." Where is that?
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pardon my bad english !!
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