Just wondering how give video the widescreen look using premier pro. Thanks

easiest method is to take your entire sequence and dump it into a new one, then apply the crop effect. Just be aware that you lose resolution when you dont use a native widescreen format.

Also, I've used the crop but it can chop off the heads and everything else, so I go to motion< click off the uniform scale<set the scale height to 60.5 then the scale width to 105.5. Then you won't lose any heads or other random body parts.

If you scale it then you are squashing the image, thats not a good thing. If you are doing a project and planning to letterbox it, you must know it from step one. When you frame your shots you either have to get used to "seeing" where the bars go and leaving room or put masking tape over the lcd for guides. Generally what i do is take a mask made in photoshop and lay it on a layer over my timeline right before i box it. I scroll through the whol sequence and check for anything that looks poorly centered etc, and then adjust that clip accordingly to fit in the frame. When the entire sequence is aligned ok, i erase the photoshop layer, and the create a new sequence, drop that sequence in and crop it (like i said above).

Another thing worth mentioning is, if you are going to distribute the film on video or DVD (not the web) you can actualy zoom out on the frame a certain amount before it shows up on a television, generally halfway between the action safe zone and the edge. This can afford you some level of fitting in a too-close CU to the box, but be aware that if you go to far it will be visible on a television. Also be aware that some TV's may show more screen area than yours, so just because you dont see the black somone else might.

The reason i mentioned the web is because those edges will appear no matter what if you render it out to a quicktime, avi, or the like. There is no overscan compensation in any file format.

also, if you haven't used it yet, premiere and final cut have "monitor safe" overlays that shows you the clipping that occurs on televisions, usually it's two boxes showing both extrememes of the clipping, but like jeff said, those are only guides.