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stephen_7873
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March 22, 2025
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Premiere Pro "Scale to Frame Size" not working

  • March 22, 2025
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In Premere Pro 2025 the action "Scale to Frame Size" is not working properly.  I have this set to the keyboard shortcut 'control+Q'.  When I press the keyboard shortcut, control+Q, the footage will scale to frame size as long as I'm holding it down, but when I release control+Q the footage will go back to it's previous size in the timeline.   In Premeire Pro 2024 all I had to do was hit control+Q and it would scale to frame size and keep it that way.

    Correct answer MyerPj

    Are you sure you want to use SCALE to frame size. FIT to frame and FILL frame both offer advantages to Scale. Scale loses the pixels, thus if you want to zoom in greater than 100% you will start to lose quality, wheras with Fit you can use those extra pixels to zoom in a bit and not lose quality. 

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    MyerPj
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    MyerPjCommunity Expert
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    March 24, 2025

    I kinda think of Scale as a legacy option, Fit is much better in nearly all cases.

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    Sumeet Kumar ChoubeyCommunity Manager
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    March 28, 2025

    Hi stephen_7873,

    We're sorry about the poor experience. I'm unable to reproduce this issue at my end. Could you please confirm if you are using a custom keyboard shortcut preset? If so, for testing purposes, please try using a different preset or mapping the command to a different key combination & see if it's making any difference. 

     

    Thanks,

    Sumeet

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    stephen_7873Author
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    March 22, 2025

    MyerPj, thanks for the advice on Fit To Frame vs Scale To Frame.   I agree this is a better method when, for example, putting 4K footage into a 1080p timeline so you can still zoom without losing pixels.

     

    Luckily this keyboard command is working too so I'll just forget about scale to frame size 😉

    MyerPj
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    MyerPjCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    March 22, 2025

    Are you sure you want to use SCALE to frame size. FIT to frame and FILL frame both offer advantages to Scale. Scale loses the pixels, thus if you want to zoom in greater than 100% you will start to lose quality, wheras with Fit you can use those extra pixels to zoom in a bit and not lose quality. 

    taylor_1538
    taylor_1538
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    February 5, 2026

    I find that scale is useful in a few particular scenarios. I edit a series of movie reviews where the posters on-screen have to remain the same size/position, which can be an issue when various posters are different pixel dimensions. So having scale crush everything to a consistent starting size lets me just paste the rescale/position values across every poster in the timeline. I hope the feature doesn’t go away for this reason alone.

     

    FWIW I’m having the same issue as OP, no matter which shortcut I map the function to.

    Ann Bens
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    Ann BensCommunity Expert
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    March 22, 2025

    When Premiere is acting up reset preferences.

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