Editing non standard video sizes

Hello everyone.
I have a load of video which is 1120 x 593 its basically screen capture video from my PC in mov format. All i want to do is edit these clips together and add some nice effects. So anyway i toddled off and bought a copy of of premier elements and started movie making!
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?
Do i have to make sure that my imput video matches one of the template, surely not? You must be able somehow to do your own size?
Thanks

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
I tried using some of the presets but the quality is either awful or i get the black border.
I seems that only the profesional edition allows you to set the frame to desktop and use a custom size. I just can't believe that you need to spend £500 on the CS5 edition to do this? I'm not wanting to do anything clever here, just change the video size.
Ive got a sinking feeling ive just wasted £75.

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