Make a sqaure frame with clip

I want to make a video with a black background and within that video there needs to be two squares with different moving images. I have made my photage so that the object I was filming is in the middle of the screen and therefore don't need the content on each side but I don't know how I can cut away the sides of the clip.
I have been looking online but so far I haven't been able to find an answer to my question.
I want the object in the video to remain the same side.
Any ideas? It would be much appriciated.
Thanks

Steven,
I use a method, very similar to yours. I create "alignment grids" in PS, and use those, just like your Title. While I use those grids for other alignment functions, I also do them for PiP, especially if I will have several, of the same size, and position, and only the footage in the PiP changes. With the grids in place, I can easily use Motion>Position, Motion>Scale and perhaps Crop.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4319250#4319250
Hunt

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Revision: 14531
Revision: 14531
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-03-02 13:40:41 -0800 (Tue, 02 Mar 2010)
Log Message:
Need to make sure that text with textLine.x < 0 is clipped. This becomes a much more common case when direction=rtl and the text is wider than the available width.
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Bugs: SDK-25689
Reviewed By: Hans
Tests run: checkintests
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Hi there Harb, Yes I found out early on that object styles can't apply size (that would be on my wish list for sure) That is why I found that creating my graphics frames on the master page with the correct size, effects and positioning tickled me so much. Can you believe I originally went through and MANUALLY resized and repositioned each and every 300+ graphics in this book but it still wasn't right. I'm nothing if not persistent. (Now if I could just get my grown sons to pick up their socks!)
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