Exporting 1080p to 720p

This is quite a basic question. I'm finding that when exporting my 1080p videos to 720p Premiere is cropping them. In the export window i'm selecting "scale to fit" but even the preview appears cropped from the original file. Is there an option I'm missing?

I hope this will help, as I had a similar problem, but not exporting from 1080p to 720p.
My problem: the videos I had was 1280x1024, when I export, is automatically cropped to 720x480, even if export settings is set to higher, it only shows 720x480 of the video
Solution to it thanks to Harm Millaard and the_wine_snob: When you make a new sequence, go to the General tab, and set the resolution, FPS and such to your source video, using Desktop as your editing mode.
Not sure if is the same problem, but maybe this will help.

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Yoomy, Jn and Steve, I have some VERY GOOD NEWS!
I MANAGED TO OUTPUT A PERFECT 1280*720 MOVIE AT 60FPS FROM IMOVIE'08!!!!
So thank you for pushing me trying harder!
As a reminder, all my recent footage is 1280*720, 60fps movies from a Sanyo Xacti HD1000 camera.
But some bad news first : for the "average" user, iMovie'08 will only export at up to 30fps.
I tried exporting to MPEG-4, with the same settings as in my previous message, except 59.94 fps and 18000kbps.
The resulting movie was 18000kbps, ..... but still 29.97fps, as the Get Info windows showed in Quicktime Player.
But I finally managed to output a movie from iMovie'08 at 60fps.
Here's how I did.
(Yoomy, I strongly suggest you try and manage to export at 1280*720, 30fps before trying this).
And for everyone, I strongly suggest to:
-backup your iMovie'08 projects (just duplicate the iMovie projects folder)
-backup your iMovie'08 preference file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iMovie7.plist (Duplicating it should be enough - ~/ represents your user folder)
This tip uses the power of Mac OS's XML preference files. So you will need Apple's property list editor, which is available for free with Leopard developer tools (on the Leopard DVD I guess, or on Apple's Developer site). You can also use the excellent shareware PlistEditPro, which just produces an annoying dialog until you have licensed it, available here http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22659
Quit iMovie.
Open iMovie'08's preference file with Property List Editor or PlistEdit Pro, search for "videoFrameRate". With property List Editor, you will have to clic the "Root" triangle and scroll to the end of the list.
Just change the value from 30 to 60, save and quit.
Relaunch iMovie'08.
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And you get a beautiful 1280*720p60 .mp4 out of iMovie.
It plays perfectly on my MBP and on my PS3, looks much better than the 30fps version (more fluis, but it looks just as if the resolution was better, on my Mac or on my full HD TV).
I paused the movie in Quicktime Player and used the arrows: there are 60 different frames per second!!!
I recommend only using this for exporting, and then going back to the 30fps setting for iMovie : editing will be smoother .... and no collateral damage is to be expected.
Aso, 18000kbps might be way too much. I am guessing that 6000- 8000kbps should rovide almost identical results. Please experiment and provide your feedback
Thanks for any positive or negative feedback.
Another good side effect: I am no longer bothered that 1080i files from the HD1000 do not work well with iMovie'08.

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