Exporting to 320x240

I am currently using a trial edition of the Premiere Pro edition.  I am trying to take small web clips that are about 2-3 mins in length and have a resolution of 320x240 when shot, and edit them in premiere.  Does it matter what the sequence settings are in terms of size/resolution?  I will ultimately need to output to Flash at the same size (320x240)...   The default sequence size is something like 740x480 and when I go to export, I have to either crop down, or force it to reduce the size which then leads to distortion in video quality and especially my titles.  What is the best way to go about getting my video out clean and at the right size?

Your video preview file format (read: the codec used to render previews) is probably set to a format that is incompatible with your sequence settings. Likely, you're using Microsoft AVI DV NTSC, which can only be used with a specific frame rate, frame size, and so on. Your sequence settings do not match those necessary parameters, hence the bad render.
With your sequence highlighted in either the Project Panel or the Timeline Panel, go to Sequence > Sequence Settings, and look at the Video Previews section at the bottom of the dialog box that appears. It probably looks like this:
You can either change the codec to something other than one of the DV flavors (the quality and size of the render files varies depending on the codec), or you can change Preview File Format to I-Frame Only MPEG; there are no codec options for that. See if you can render cleanly after changing either of those parameters.
Note that neither of these have any direct effect on exporting; they're simply setting how the preview files are created for timeline playback.

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