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deanr78548626
Inspiring
September 24, 2026
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Cropping should have a click-and-drag feature

  • September 24, 2026
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In my workflow, I have to do alot of image/video cropping, and I find it frustrating that every time I do it, I have to go either into the properties or effects control panel and nudge numbers, instead of just dragging the left/right/top/bottom pins of the frame (like how you would resize a image/video). 

If, let’s say, I click on the “Motion” tab in “Effects Controls”, and I press a hotkey (ie. Alt or Option) and click and drag one of the left/right/top/bottom pins, that would crop the image/video. 

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    Inspiring
    September 25, 2026

    I believe the answer you are looking for is here 🙂: https://community.adobe.com/feature-requests-730/allow-the-crop-tools-shown-under-motion-in-the-effect-controls-window-to-act-the-same-as-the-crop-effect-when-selected-to-allow-adjustments-in-the-program-monitor-instead-of-only-being-able-to-scale-the-clip-1559533

    Direct manipulation is what you want, found in the bottom left corner of the program window. You can also assign hotkeys.

    I must say, it would be nice to be able to drag the crop ‘box’ around, but instead it adjusts the position of the clip inside the crop box

    deanr78548626
    Inspiring
    September 25, 2026

    WOW… I have been using premiere professionally for 7+ years and NEVER knew about this, thank you. 

    And I agree, direct manipulation via Crop should be WITHIN the transform box, not a switch you should have to toggle in the program monitor. Again to my earlier point, by pressing let’s say “Alt”, direct manipulation only does crop adjustments. 

    Thanks again for this!