Premiere Element is cropping my overlay when exporting at higher resolutions

Report · Sep 15, 2020

Hi all,

Completely new to premiere elements here. I watched a tutorial on how to add in overlay (picture in picture) video to my project.

It looks fine during the project preview.

When i export thru the quick export @ 640 x 480 resolution, everything looks normal.

When i export thru "TV" at 1920 x 1080 resolution, my main video looks fine but my overlay (which is in the bottom right corner), is cropped halfway horizontally.

When i tried a custom export at 1440 x 1080 resolution it looks normal again.

Am i missing a setting somewhere? Why is it not exporting correctly at normal HD resolution? Only my overlay is affected.

Report · Sep 15, 2020

Look under the Edit menu. What is listd on the General page under Project Settings?

Report · Sep 15, 2020

Hi Steve,

This is what it shows in the project settings.
Did i initially import media that was only 640x480 and therefore my project was set as that instead of my camera's 1920x1080?

Does that cause a lot of issues specifically with overlay videos and having weird crops?

Report · Sep 16, 2020

What is the resolution of the video you are editing?

It's most likely this 640x480 project setting is not right for what you are trying to do.