This numbnutz has an editing question

[Spatula]

Good evening.
I'm editing my contest submission here, and I'm running into two big problems... since this is my first solo edit I am running into brick walls here and my helmet is broken... I caved... I need help.

THE PROBLEM:
Clip sizing when I imported was at 100% so I adjusted the option to "fit to project scaling". That worked! The size would be 200% and everything was hunky-dorey.
HOWEVER... when I speed up some of the clips, the old size issue seems solved after re-adjusting the scale, but when I render it goes back to it's original size (despite still saying 200% scale). I'm baffled. How can I solve this diplomatically? Anyone have an answer?

And also... the video (without audio) is coming out around 30MB with maximum compression... could someone help me out on this... I would love for people to just list the compression options here that they use (my whole movie is 5min exactly). I used Sorensen3, Mpeg4... just no good!!!


Thanks!!

-Logan-