ONE OF US. welcome, brother. hope you didn't like whatever your other hobbies were, because you're a vidder now.

Solving things like "aspect ratio" and "why the fuck isn't the video importing properly?" and "what's a codec anyway?" are totally the hardest parts of learning to vid, precisely because it takes a lot of work just to learn the vocabulary and the skills to know how to diagnose a problem when it arises. I'd offer help, but I'm on a mac, so can't really help you with Premiere. But I do recommend vidding, viddingnewbies and vidding_tech.

Seriously, though, welcome. :) Don't give up - it's a pain in the ass right now, but once you get your first vid made, I promise that the high is worth it.