The first question I have is pretty basic, so hopefully it's an easy one to answer.
I'm editing some HD footage that will be ending up on DVD, and may end up having to scale/crop certain shots to compensate for framing problems. Of course, if the output medium is SD, there's a fair bit of room to work with; but how does Premiere handle scaling within the sequence when the output will be scaled to a lower resolution? Will it scale up past 100%, and then back down to the final resolution, or intelligently determine that the output only has to be scaled down (albeit not as much)?
If it's the former, I assume I'll drop things into an SD sequence to give myself the extra scaling room. If it's the latter, is there some other compelling reason to drop everything into an SD sequence before export anyway?
Thanks,
Nathanael
