Can one crop a movie with Premiere Elements 9

[Chucky-Tiger]

I want to crop a bit from the left and a bit from the right of a movie [not equal amounts].

In Photoshop it is easy, but in Premiere Elements 9 Trim and Crop just appear to zoom in.

I just want to be able to remove without rescaling unattractive parts.

Stupidly being new to video as it is in Photoshop I just assumed [always dangerous] tht would be possible.

Ideally I do not want the result to be rescaled and suffer a loss in quality. Ideally I would like this then to be centered.

I can live with a black border where I removed the offending edges.

There seems to be no way for the user to determine how much lefrt, right , top and bottom.

sorry if I posted this in the pro section but there seems to be no forum for Premeiere Elements. And no support or manuals!

I am happy to buy the upgrade to Premiere Elements 11 if that can do it.

Any help much appreciated!

Peter

[the_wine_snob]

Thanks for the clarification.

It was I, who had missed Peter's version of PrE, and I did not pick that up, until I saw a post of yours later.

Hunt

[Chucky-Tiger]

HI

Just a courtesy post to say .I am most appreciative for all the replies.

And am extremely interested resolveing this - and quite frankly need your help.

I got back from a long shoot and a long drive 160+ miles at 10.00pm to find 2 new speedlites had arrived and a Bowens Streamlight.

I need to check out the speedlites [as  bought them on the grey market so need to know if they work oK ].

And in checking out the Streamlight, the big reflector was so badly made it took me over an hour just to push the 3 spigots into their reciever holes - but it is so badly made there is no way I can twist it to lock up!

Hence I will have to abort the Adobe excercise to a] test the speedlites, and b] repack the Streamlite and write an email with pictures etc. to get a replacement and collection organised; so it is in time for a shoot I bought it for!

If only they made stuff properly!

Well miffed as if I had bought a cheapo set of Lights I could have expected it; but paying a hefty price for a "premium" product and getting this garbage really irks me, let alone threatens the main shoot on Monday and scuppers the Sunday shoot!

So apologies but I will have to get back to this tomorrow evening.

Just wanted you guys to know I am utterly dependant on getting this all sorted.

Sure hope you guys can understand.- and will help me tomorrow.

Peter  :

PS I quickly scanned the replies and they look extremely helpful.

[the_wine_snob]

Sorry about the speedlights. While I know the name Bowens, and know that they have been around for many years, I am unfamiliar with them. I started with Ascors and two Rollei studio units, then moved to Speedotron, when Ascor was rolled into their line up. Other than a Norman 4000WS system (Speedotron did not have that much power back then), that is all I have ever used, other than a handful of my Nikon Speedlights for tiny jobs. Some of my Speedotrons have been around the world a couple of times, and other than scratches on their paint, still keep working.

Good luck, and let us know when you get things sorted out.

Hunt

[Chucky-Tiger]

Thanks, no the Canon 600 EXRTSpeedlites and the radio trigger STE-3 - thank goodness seem to be All OK. All good! Actually they work pretty well on ETTL2 [which is not usually my favourite]

The problem was with the Bowens Streamlite a continuous daylight balanced lamp [that I need for video work].

Anyway WEX are next day shipping a replacement tomorrow [Saturday]  - so I can do my shoot on Sunday and the other on Monday.

Lets just hope its not a batch problem!

[Chucky-Tiger]

Not at all Bill.

Being over 50;) thats why I still like the phone. But then one wouldn't get all this great help.