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Inspiring
May 22, 2018
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Rotating then cropping

  • May 22, 2018
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Running Premiere Elements 15 on a Windows 10 computer. One of my clips had to be rotated a few degrees. Then I wanted to crop it so that the cropped area on the screen matched a first clip that I had cropped without rotation. For that first clip, there is an area in the frame with content that is surrounded by black. The issue is that for the rotated clip the crop controls are themselves rotated, so what I end up with is a rotated area with the corrected content surrounded by black, which doesn't match what I have for the first clip.

Is there a way to rotate a clip and then do something such that if I crop afterward the crop controls are horizontal and vertical? I tried scaling after rotating but that didn't help. For example, in Photoshop if you rotate an image and then follow with a crop, the crop controls themselves are not rotated.

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    Correct answer P1965

    You could probably accomplish this with the garbage matte feature, anywhere from 4 point and up.

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    Inspiring
    May 22, 2018

    Just to clarify - I can understand if I crop first and then rotate, the cropped area will be rotated. But I don't want that to happen if I rotate first and then crop.

    P1965
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    Inspiring
    May 22, 2018

    You could probably accomplish this with the garbage matte feature, anywhere from 4 point and up.

    Inspiring
    May 22, 2018

    Thanks. I didn't know about that feature.