How do I design a Process for resizing multiple files for Premiere Elements

Question

Hi
I am trying to understand how best to resize my slide shows of still photos to export to Premiere Elements, to reduce errors in rendering, as advised on a separate discussion.
I understand  I should reduce the resolution to something like the PE Frame Size, 720 by 576 for UK PAL.
I cannot do this on Files with pan and zoom
So I think this is what I do
Export a Collection  to a file.
Resize all files in the folder to a new folder using the Process Multiple files command
On trying that I have the following questions
If I do it this way, the files in portrait orientation don't correctly resize to the size I want, so what do I do with a folder of mixed orientations? Do I do two passes, or rotate the Photos, or something else?
Now do I now have to reimport all these photos (the resized collection) into the Catalogue, create a new Collection, and then apply zooms in my Slide Show creation of this Collection. I really want to retain the original photos for printing quality so don't really want to take the originals out of the Catalogue. I will end up doubling the size of my catalogue?
Will the pan/zoom ones cause a problem to render in PE?
Thanks
Chris

Answer 1

I have PEv.8 on my machine now, but it is probably the same in v.5
In Editor, go to File>Process multiple files. In the dialog, on the right under "Labels" you should find "Watermark".
An alternative is to make a brush containing the information which you wish to impart. With a brush you can place it precisely in a locus that you desire, but this would be labor intensive for 400 photos.  The brush would be retained among the other brushes, and it could be used at any time.