Sequence Settings - missing tabs

Hope it's just a silly question...
My sequence settings window has only two tabs: Timeline options and render control. Do I have to change anything anywhere to be able to change other things as Samplerate, fieldorder etc...
I'm feeling a bit stupid at the moment..
Thanks for your help!

So there is no possibility to change the samplerate to 44.1k or cut a movie in 640x480? Ok, I could render it in whatever size I want to. But if my original footage is 640x480 it doesn't really make sense to scale it up, cut it and scale it down. Hmm, that's weird...

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    Click DV-NTSC 48 kHz - 23.98 and press Duplicate
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