How to Crop a Video in Premiere Elements 2019

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January 27, 2019
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Simple question, I think, but one for which I can't find an answer:

How do I crop a video? I'm not asking about trimming or making clips of the video. Instead, I have a video where I want to discard the bottom 25% of the video image for the entirety of the video. I'm not seeing a way to do this.

Thanks for any help.

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Shivangi_Gupta

Community Manager

Hi gromi7,

Thanks for reaching out. Did you try the suggestions provided above? Let us know if you have any other query.

Thanks,

Shivangi

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Steve Grisetti

Legend

Do note, however, that cropping a video isn't like, say, cropping a photo.

Cropping a photo actually changes the shape of the photo. But cropping a video changes the shape of the video WITHIN THE PROJECT.

In other words, if you crop a video in a 1920x1080 video project, your finished video will still be 1920x1080. The sides or sides you crop off your video, however, will appear as black bars (unless you enlarge your video to fill the space).

Is that what you're trying to do?

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Bill Sprague

Community Expert

Ann and Steve always get this right. That said....

"Cropping" can mean a few different things. If you mean cutting off unwanted parts on the sides, there is an easy way. Click your mouse on the middle of the monitor panel. Two little dots show up. You can then grab them and move the "frame" out. Then you can grab the picture in the middle again and slide the entire image around for composition.

(That's my granddaughter in the middle between my son and I. I'm the old one.)