Pan HD still in SD project

Hi all!
How can i import a HD 1080i still into a SD project so i can pan it?
When i do it FCP resize it... i need full imagem (larger then 768x576) so i can pan as i need!
Thank you
HBars

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I just acquired PE7 on the assumption that it was a sophisticated program that allowed me to integrate/edit stills into my video footage to create a complete dvd and boy was I dissapointed to find that I cannot even pan a still like the simpler and free Windows Movie Maker that came with my machine. I create "Ken Burns" type documentaries that have a lot of stills and live video footage and now I am stuck.
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Hi Ninose11,
ninose11 wrote:
I have several hundred stills that that were scanned at 600dpi in jpeg format. I know that 72dpi would be the norm for images in video, but I intend to zoom in at least 200% on many of the stills. So just to be on the safe side, I scanned them all at 600dpi.
DPI doesn't matter in video, look at the frame size of these images instead.
ninose11 wrote:
In terms of panning and zooming on stills in Premiere Pro, does it matter that the images were scanned as jpegs rather than tiffs or png files?
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ninose11 wrote:
Will that cause problems in Premiere Pro CC for playback or does the image format not matter?
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ninose11 wrote:
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