Working with various formats within project

Good Afternoon,
I am about to embark on creating a 2-3 minute splash reel for our company, to include tons of clips from work we've done in the last year. Owners of content submitted the work in a variety of formats with an unfortunate emphasis on WMV's. Frame sizes and frame rates are all over the place.
What is the best way to start in? Do I conform everything to the same specs, or at least convert the WMV's to QT? Or do I just deal with heavy amounts of rendering working with the non-uniform clips in the time line?
I really appreciate any advice.

I'm sure Flip4Mac's big brother Episode would do everything you want, and more, but it's a few more dollars as well. However, F4M should work fine, too. As far as the size, that might take an experiment, but I would think you can leave them at their current size spec, then process.

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