Crop & scale photos: a faster way in Premiere Pro

Need to crop and scale a lot of photos in Premiere Pro? Here's a better way to do it.

Cropping and scaling is a long and tedious process, and if you're using the Ken Burns effect (a photo montage with animated zooms), it takes even longer.

The traditional way of scaling photos in Premiere has been to use Set to Frame Size - but this more often results in black bars when your photo's aspect ratio does not match your sequence.

This video will show you a lightning fast way to reframe your photos, remove black bars and make sure the most interesting objects are always front and center.

Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:27 The problem with Set to Frame Size
00:00:52 A better way to crop and scale
00:01:57 Adjusting scale and position
00:02:19 Animating scale and position (Ken Burns effect)

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Paul Murphy (The Premiere Pro)
Editor & Post Production Consultant

[HomePerformance]

THANK YOU. Been asking google for two days, finally found your concise video!

[JohnMcGovarin]

Amazing channel Paul, saved me so much time already. Hope to see you at the next ASE meet!

[yajneshs]

Wow.. never knew about it .. thanks :)

[bfeole]

Brilliant. Subscriber! Love the channel title!

[UstedEstaAqui]

I love you a lot. I am a fan of video automation. This plus an auto zoom and crop preset and you have a voice over video in minutes lol. I already found several valuable information on this channel that I did not see anywhere else. I will be attentive to any tip of automation you can give. 😎🤝😁 You have instagram? I would like to follow you.

[KaylahAmbriz]

Hello I did this and now the photos are blurry how could I fix this?

[ibnu.aziz]

Thank you for sharing. Hope your channel getting bigger. Very useful information.

[superradness]

Literally why does everything in Premiere have to be so hard to find and difficult? I'm used to Filmora where you can literally just click to crop the photo and adjust it from there.

[chapdoc]

Hi Paul. Remember me? :) Thanks for this cool tip. Is there an easy way to do this same reframe "Ken Burns" motion on a series of photos with a consistent crop? I'm working on a split screen with a photo montage on the left side.

[dougcrossley]

Why does autoreframe not come up for me when I search?

[lancehaoyuanli]

But here is no easy way to do a normal crop and scale from the center for all clips?

[zombieravioli]

Great! I had been searching on how to do this and the other videos were too random. nice job! @zombieRavioli