Two video clips appear as different sizes

I captured two different clips, and on the capture one is a smaller picture, while the other is a full screen picture.  What did I do wrong, or how can I fix it?
This is on Adobe Premiere CS5.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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What are the dimensions of both clips (in pixels)?
Where are you seeing this problem? In the Source Monitor or the Program Monitor?
If the clips have different dimensions and you have to use them in the same sequence, then your best bet will be to have the sequence settings match the smaller clip and then scale the larger one to fit the smaller sequence. That's because scaling video up results in noticeable pixelation whereas scaling down looks pretty clean. If the larger clip is also a different aspect ratio than the smaller one (like 16:9 vs 4:3), then you'll probably want to scale it so that the height of the frame fills the screen, which will mean that the edges will be cropped.

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