How to "crop" a clip

Hi,
I need help with the following. I edit medical clips and need to remove the patient's identification data on the edges of the clips. I recently upgraded from Premiere 6 to CS6. In the older version the "CROP" tool covered the cropped area with black and was not useful. The tool to use was "Image PAN" that allowed to keep just a portion of the image and discard the areas outside the "Image pan". I would then export the remainder of the clip to its new size. For instance I would start from a 900 by 720 pixel clip and export the area of interest, such as 480 by 360 pixels. In the image i would like to keep just the area in the red box.
Any ways to do this in CS6 ? Any step-by-step technique ?
thanks for any suggestions

OK, I have to put my two cents worth in here. Either I am completely confused or my old friends on this thread are missing the entire point.
PJ, I will call you PJ until told your real name because your screen name is just too, well, medical. Nothing personal, but I have trouble with the title Plebotomist as well.
In any case, I have no idea why anyone would tell you to edit to a certain size when all you have to do is crop the output just before you export it. Now, I must say that I very highly recommend that you export to a frame size where both dimensions are evenly divisible by 8. You don't really want the details, is my guess, so just trust me on that one. 480X360 is a good choice.
Ah, but how do I crop on export you say?
Simple.
I don't have any video with 900X720 frames, so I just copied your image from up above and scaled it up in Photoshop to 900X720. Make sense so far? Good.
I imported the scaled up image into Premiere Pro and dropped it on the New button to create a new sequence based on the image. Still with me?
Now that I have the image (or clip) on the correct size sequence for my source material, just assume I did whatever you do to put titles on it, or color correct it or whatever and now it is time to export.
In the Export Settings window that comes up, I move over to click on the Source tab instead of looking at the Output tab. I select the crop tool. Then I use the drop down arrow next to Crop Proportions and choose the 4:3 ratio because you indicated that would be good for you, right? There are many other choices. Try to be careful and size the box to 480X360 so you get a better output. But if that is not the right size, you might want to scale the video up or down a little as required. Or not, if you are happy with the output quality.
Now click on the Output tab and select "Change Output Size To Match Source". Notice that the frame size over on the right changes to 480X360.
Sorry about your red lines but as you can see, my output is a perfect 4:3 while your red box is not.
Now all you have to do is import the FLV file into Flash, put it on a stage and export as SWF. Or export to something Sorenson likes and let Sorenson convert to SWF.
Simple. Just like I said. Right?
Now, is that what you really wanted or am I the one who is confused?
-- Steven

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:00:41 -0700
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Subject: How do I use clipping mask to cover unwanted background?
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