Thanks. I learned this one the hard way. I do a lot of scanning and zooming. Scale to Frame left me with pixelated images (which I hate). Just out of desperation I tried 'Set To...' and voila, the clouds parted and the choir sang.

This was beyond helpful. I'm a novice video maker, I mostly work to create "speed paints" of my drawings. This had the right amount of information without boring me and while also giving me everything I needed to know. Again this was extremely helpful, I want to encourage you to keep making videos, though I know this is an old video.

to help anyone out. it's very simple: use set to frame size, not scale to frame size.

It is so nice that when I search for an answer... not only do I get the perfect video and but that it is explained to such an extent that I feel I can now teach it to others. Thank you for the video !!!!

Very informative! I've always just used "Scale to frame size" because I never noticed a difference haha. Thanks so much!

Easy to follow info on a somewhat confusing setting. Thank you for this excellent video, helped me out a lot.

Thank you for this video. I have come back to it many times. very helpful!

this is a great channel for premiere pro tutorials, it's a shame that Collin doesn't get more subscribers. you deserve better mister.

Hey thanks for the nod to my training session at ABC! I love your tutorials Colin!!

Thank you! Helped me figure out my problem within the first minute of watching this.

You are awesome! Love all your videos so far on Adobe Premiere Pro! Very helpful and easy to follow and relaxing to watch.

hahah i feel so dumb , thank you !! you are the real MVP , i was upscaling 1080 to 1440p and all the time manually resizing to fit black bar that is left

Ahhhhh I've been doing it wrong this whole time!!! Thanks for the help!

Wow man, Thank you so much, I was thinking about the difference I've always used the scale to frame size and I noticed it was always getting a lower resolution so I thought maybe the SET TO FRAME SIZE would do it but I wasn't sure and then I found your video and that's it! I appreciate! thank you

That was the bit of help I needed to make things work for me. Thanks

Thank you, for the great info. I was juggling with the frame size and this video made my work easy!

Hi sir your content is really very informative and professional. i really like and apply these techniques in my work. i want to request to make video on how to edit different frame rates in 1 sequence. i will be really gratefull to you. God bless you sir.

New to Premiere. So many questions. Right to the point. Thank you.

Thanks for the video. Adobe named the set and scale options backwards in my opinion. If I want to scale my 4K footage down to my 720 timeline, and leave it so as 4K footage so that it can be zoomed in slightly without digitizing, you'd think I should choose "Scale to frame size" , since I am wanting to "scale" my footage down. Nope, instead Adobe has labeled this "set to frame size". Very confusing.

Default scale to frame size... Where is that setting now in 2022? I cant find it and I need to bring in larger media w/o scaling :-(

I have designed a frame in photoshop. Now in premiere pro I want to insert a video within that frame. A Video tutorial on this would be of great help. Regards

Thank you so much... Today i am editing my first ever video on pro and this problem haunting me... You solved just like that...

Ops. No wonder. I have pictures 6000x4000. And I created a timeline that set the settings to that. I was lost when I changed the sequence to 720 or 1080p. It was mad zoomed in. But in a 720 it still doesnt fit right.

Very well explained!

Great description. Well explained. Thanks a lot.

Great video, thanks for the advice! Just what I was looking for.

That explains it so well, thank you!

Nicely explained, much appreciated.

Thanks a million times. This is very easily explained. Cheers..!!

your videos are so helpful

I second that THANK YOU! This was very helpful and so succinct. Very helpful. Thank you.

I really like your videos - I am a colorist and trying to broaden my editing - So new to Premiere. I see a lot of people using 4k footage ( UHD ) on a 1080 timeline to crop in or reframe ( pan etc. ). Which is pretty much what you are covering here. My problem arises when you mix that in with Proxies - Need the proxies to work well for multicam but - Premieres way of handling seems a little confusing. I take the 4k files and make 1920 x 1080 proxies and then thought I could use a 980 x 540 timeline and the proxies would be the same scale but it seems that I switch from proxy to original while in that timeline and the preview window changes the file, but not the scale of the preview. Can't find a tutorial on doing this ( 4k to 1080 multicam with proxies ) Do you have something close to that in your repertoire? - Or should I just match resolution and use a quicker codec (smaller bit ) so the end result is closer? What do you recommend for a proxy for multicam?

Very informative. Do you have a tut on multi camera editing when you can bring in clips shot on different cameras and frame rates. Then set the sequence to smallest file size and rest to set to fit and edit all the footage in one sequence?

Sir: I’m asking for a favor. I don’t know why my Tools are in Gray (In Waveform) what I need to do for activating Tools. Thanks in advance for your answer

So from Standard def to HD, I'd used scale to frame size? (Understand that it's a poor choice to go to HD from SD)

Great explanation. It is very useful - thanks!

I looked this up this morning because I was using a lot of still images. It seems like the secret is to do the opposite. For still images that will pan and zoom go with SET to frame size. If you just want it to fit SCALE to frame size. I need to figure out a way to remember that with word play. Scale once, set always?

Dropping a clip with dimensions higher than the sequence dimensions = use scale to frame size Dropping a clip with dimensions smaller than the sequence dimensions = use set to frame size True or the other way around?

Super helpful. Thanks man!

Goddamn, I didn't know that! I was wondering why both footages I had on a timeline - 4k and 1080 looks the same. Thank you

thanks for sharing..you save my day...

Nice! Very informative! Thanks

great explanation, thx

Hey Colin, another great tutorial! Can you tell me if you have a tutorial of blending a color within a mask with a surrounding color? For example, an elevator door frame has a black tag with the floor number on it and the door frame is aluminum color. I want to eliminate the tag and blend in the aluminum color.

This is sooo helpful

What can it be that all of my footage need to be scaled up, it always too small at 100 and I need to double it to fit in the frame.... and I actually loose a little on the sides when I do so

thanks!

Hi, on the 1080p sequence I did replace the 1080p proxy file with UHD originals footage and scale to frame size all footages and render UHD format from the 1080p sequence, so may I lose quality??

What about going the other direction? I have 80% 4k 29.97 clips, and 20% 1080p - 59.97 clips (shot so I could slow them down). I want to output the 4k for posterity, so my sequence is a 4k resolution... For those 1080 clips, should I be "setting to frame size" or "scaling to frame size"?

Thank you very much for this effort possible lessons more professional in the work of technicians to program the Premier

I need to drop in literally hundreds of photos with tons of varying sizes and aspect ratios. Is there a way to have an effect similar to InDesign's "Fill Frame Proportionally" tool?

But which one is better when working with 4K and HD footage. I don't wanna pixelate my HD footage so I ended up setting the timeline to HD and importing the 4K files, I just wanna make sure I keep them as high res as possible, even when downscale them. Am I in the right track?

You are amazing! Thank you for the help!

Great video! I'm glad I found your site. You are a God send to all newer and older videographers. Big Question....Call me old fashion if you like, I am still using Premiere Pro 6 CC and love it. Recently I bought a Panasonic HC X1. I made some of my own sequences following some other youtube sites, however, I still felt that in some clips, I was missing some pixels that I would need for post zooms. I followed your advice, but PP6 doesn't have the option (that I know of) to set the frame size, only scale. I did "unchecked scale" in preferences, but I have to manually downscale each clip now. Do you agree that this is just the way it is for this version or did I miss something? Thank you in advance for your reply, Jamie

Ohoo great!! it was really helpful

Thank for the explanation! If I scaled a photo to frame size, (and want to zoom in) can i go back and set to frame size, or will all those pixels be lost at that point and I would have to import it again. Thanks again! Jake

Amazing! Thanks so much !

useful info! thankssss!!!

this helped me big time!!

I don't have the option of 'Set To Frame Size' :(

Is there a quality setting for scaling up like the one in Edius - bicubic or Lanczos 3(hi-quality), bilinear( fast & sharp)? I can't find it in premiere pro.

my preview video has a big black box surrounding the outer edges and it comes out blurry

Thank u for this video.....In your experience Which is best video editing software Avid,Fcp or Pro???

Thanks! Good video

Very informative video. i got what i was looking for. thank you. i have a question. why does my video quality degrades after editing in premier pro cs6. i did render, export, color correction almost everything but the result is very bad. Please help.

I have a question with Pr Pro CC 2018. I have clips 1080P @ 29.97 from my canon G7X. I put them on my timeline first to start editing process, then I add different clips from my goPro Hero 6 @ 2.7K @ 30 and @60 on the timeline. All looks OK as I'm editing, and when I render to put on KZfaq I will render at 1080P 29.97. Should I do set anything on PrPro while I'm editing the timeline before I render. Also, the 60fps clips...I'm setting the speed to 50% for slow motion video. Will there be any issues with this workflow?

I have CS5.5 for PC. I don't see an option for set to frame size. Is this a new addition to Premier Pro CC only?

Its auto scale to frame size but no auto set to frame size... I work a lot in 6K to HD... Wish there was... ??? Is it?

Thanks for the video. I want to make a 1080 full HD video from 720p footage. Do i need to resize or "Default Scale to Frame Size" all footage or i should make 720 sequence and render to 1080p or i should make a 1080p sequence instead? Glad if u reply this. :D

Great video by the way, but I still have a quick question (and I apologize if this is a super noob question, I am a super noob lol). Do either of these options effect the final resolution of the exported file? And by this I mean, if I say drop some 1080p footage into a timeline to start, then drop some 4K footage and choose scale to frame size to make it fit, when I render at 4K in the export settings, is it still using the 4K source file to render or is it essentially rendering the 4K to 1080 then upscaling to 4K again? Sorry for the complex question, just want to make sure I'm not loosing any of my 4K quality by using either of these options. Thanks!

Thank you!!!!

Thank you 😍

I brought in a 720 video into a brand new time line and it was showing up small in the source monitor with lots of black showing so I manually scaled the video in the effects controls. I had to blow it up to 162 to fill the screen. I didn't notice any cropping happening. Does scaling it this way lose resolution?

u r the best!!!! Thanx a lot!

For some weird reason, my set to frame size and set to frame size on premiere pro are not working. I'm not able to therefore readjust my clips. Please help.

Thank you!

Please help me. I am fully new with editing video in Premiere. I do set to frame size and quality becomes very bad - pixelized.... And I actually making video smaller :( :( So It has 1920 x 1080 (some kind of intro) and I want to push it as intro next to movie which is 640 x 360....

Thanks!

Hey there, do you know of any way to batch apply a specific scaling effect to clips in your project panel? I was able to save a preset with the scaling change applied, but Premiere doesn't support applying 'intrinsic effects (motion, opacity, speed)' to master clips and so I wasn't able to drag the preset onto the clip. Just wondeirng if you or anyone happened to know a work around, opposed to applying these changes every time you drag UHD footage into a 2K timeline for example. Many thanks! ( helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/master-clip-effects.html for reference)

Do you need to set the sequence to frame size, or will it do it automatically when you add the first media clip to the sequence?

So adobe doesn't have an option to fill the screen with the image (with a pan option to get the best part of the image?) I am confused. The select option you have here (with the blue selection) looks like exactly what I need but it doesn't ever show up for me.

How can I resize a clip to a specific dimension? So instead of a "1920 x 1080" dimension I get a "1500 x 1500" dimension?

thanks thanks thanks a lot

THANK YOU!!

Hi Colin. Quick question, using Premiere Pro, lately I'm finding when I upload video to twitter I'm getting a thin border around my videos. Be it 1080 or 720. I often use Quicktime player to export to reduce file size, but don't think that's the reason. Any obvious ideas why it's happening? It never used to, it's a new thing. Could it be something to do with not pre-comping? Cheers

How do you do this in vesion 2022?

sometimes when i put my videos into adobe premiere and start to edit them it zooms in on my clips and i have to scale them out to get the full size image/video. why is this? and scaling it out, does that ruin the quality? thx in advance !:)

When I right click on the clip, it only has scale to frame size. Where would I find set to frame size (that is the one that doesnt pixelate it right?) The clip I imported was a video I had made, but it is 1.87 gb so it shouldnt lose too much quality right? For some reason when I brought it in it was tiny in the frame. I am moving over from fcp to premiere, and never had this in fcp! If you could help I would be very grateful. Thanks!

tnx Sir,best info

thank you. Great explanation. > subscribed

God bless you how could i ever repay you?

THANKS OLD MAN

Thank you very much,this video really helped a lot #Salute

Is there an AUTO SET TO FRAME SIZE??????

Sir I'm finding an issue while exporting a video, and that is not showing in full frame... why black bar is adding by default while I'm exporting any video in premier pro cc..... please help me sir

hey Colin so is setting it to frame size keeps more quality?

Hi! They said you could auto "set to frame size" in 2017 version.... How do I turn that on?

Thanks for the tip. Just one question... what PC spec are u using to run that 5k red file?

Can you please help me?? I have 4K footages. I have to somewhat crop few of them (I'm editing a short film) for aesthetics but I don't want any loss of resolution! Should I edit in 4k (My computer can handle it) and then export it to 1920x1080, or should I set my timeline to 1920x1080 and put the 4k footages there, and finally export at 1920x1080... Which would give me the best result?

Colin, I need your help. I have a 1080p timeline with a mixture of 1080p and 4K footage. I am using proxies for the 4K footage but my footage has them condensed in matte tracks aand split screens and such. The problem is, when I replace my footage with the high quality 4K files, it's going to mess up my compositions and framing ): I am a bit scared, is there anything I can do replace the proxies with my high quality files but not mess up my timeline? Please help ):