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BillNM
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August 27, 2023
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Improve Premiere Pro's built-in help

  • August 27, 2023
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I've had this same experience for YEARS (hence part of the reason for my lack of progress (and patience) learning Premiere).

 

This morning, all I wanted to do was CROP a video.  Good grief could it get simpler?  So I type, well, "crop a video" into Premier Pro Help - and I get results about masking, trimming, tracking, ETC ETC.  But - without digging and digging and DIGGING for my specific question (which seems pretty basic?), I can NOT find the answer.

This specific example may or not represent the exact help issue I've had for YEARS with Adobe, but it's very similar.

How in the heck can a multi-billion-dollar company not have sorted out it's HELP documentation any better than this?

 

Now of course I recognize I may be missing some BASIC way of actually getting HELP - but then maybe that's even more emblematic of the global problem - why is it so hard and unintuitive in the first place to type a simple help statement and NOT get the question answered?


So then I search for Youtube videos - and there are of course THOUSANDS - and then have to dig thru those to finally find the answer (maybe) to my question, after sifting thru which VERSION the videos are covering, and on and on.

 

It's just SO sickening.

Am I really the only one who has this experience, and for YEARS AND YEARS?  And with ALL Adobe products?

 

Mod note: title was changed to reflect feature request.

14 replies

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 27, 2023

I tried to find crop in the help: could not find it either.

Warren Heaton
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 27, 2023

The information is there.  I think the challenging part is how to filter out the noise.

Use "Adobe helpx Premiere Pro" at the start of any search to bring results for official Adobe documentation to the top of the search results.

Searching for "Adobe helpx Premiere Pro crop video" showed this at the top of my results:
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/video/discover/crop-video-in-premiere-pro.html

 

 

 

BillNM
BillNMAuthor
Known Participant
August 27, 2023

OK - got it - thanks very much for the screen grab. 

 

Part of the issue, I guess, is that I wouldn't think cropping is an "effect", and that cropping would CERTAINLY be available via the right-click menu...or SEQUENCE - CROP, or CLIP - CROP, etc.

 

Anyway, thanks again.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 27, 2023

The HELP is hopeless in some areas.

This is what Crop means in Premiere lingo.