

If you want to further adjust the clip’s position and scale, follow the next method. This also goes for top and bottom cropping. If you’re not planning on moving the video around afterwards, make sure to set the crop for both left and right sides to the same percentage. These are all initially set to zero percent. The Crop effect consists of all four sides’ cropped percentage.If you can’t find it, you can always enable it by opening the “Window“ menu. It’s usually located on the left side of the screen. If you drop it directly at the video you want to crop, its crop options will open in the “Effect Controls“ tab. You can access it from the “Effects“ tab by going to Video Effects, opening the “Transform“ category, and finally choosing “Crop.“ You can also do this by looking for it in the search bar.

For example, 1080×2160 pixels is a common 9:18 mobile screen resolution. Note: Some newer smartphones have a screen aspect ratio of 9:18, so this may also be a viable option. This is a resolution that most current phone screens have and the one that Instagram and YouTube mostly use for vertical videos. In the “Video“ tab, set the frame size to have 1080 pixels horizontally and 1980 pixels vertically, or just make sure that the aspect ratio is 9:16.

There are two main ways to crop a video in Premiere: by cropping a video and by adjusting its scale and position.
