Now in beta: Crop

[Abhi Singh Principal PM]

The intrinsic motion effect now has crop parameters. You can use Crop on all your videos and images without the need to add an effect. If you prefer to continue using Crop from the Effects panel, that is still there and continues to be available.

Crop is now included in the Properties panel. Crop parameters can also be accessed via the motion filter in the Effect Controls Panel.

You can also crop directly in the Program Monitor. Click on the new button under the Program Monitor which will bring up a menu to switch between Crop and Transform.

To use Crop in the Properties Panel, select video or image clips in the timeline. You can crop video clips using Left, Top, Right and Bottom controls in the Property panel. . You can reset any crop modifications by using the reset button on the top right of Crop or by using the Undo command.

For more information about the Properties Panel, please refer to the Beta Forums post on the Properties panel:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/now-in-beta-properties-panel-for-premie...

Please try crop as an intrinsic effect and give us feedback!  Thank you!

Abhi Singh
Principal Product Manager, Premiere Pro

[Ann Bens]

Please put all the crop parameters together (like opacity and time remapping) so we can twirl them up just like in the properties panel

As of now, they take in a lot of room.

[Abhi Singh Principal PM]

Thanks for the feedback Ann. 

[Kevin-Monahan]

Good enhancement request, @Ann Bens!

[Andrew318530775svy]

Please remove or compress these crop controls. They are taking up 1/5th of my effect control space and I use them significatly less than other things I use that space for constantly. 

[DJP2014]

Agree with everyone else. Please give Crop it's own twirl down like in the Properties Panel.

[SpaceCherryFilms]

This feature is really good, I suggest adding in a feather slider to make blending easier. 

[AbhiSingh12]

That's great feedback. Thank you. 

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hell yeah.

[yanga18281014]

Can we draw a mask and then crop within the range, just like the original crop function?
and it would be better if there is a preset that can be directly cropped to a ratio of 16:9 or 9:16.

[Richard M Knight]

Should the crop controls be above the other fixed effects like scale and rotate as they seem to effect the croped image. rather than what's in the crop

[Pelle Asselbergs]

Hi Abhi, it would be nice to have Edge Feather also as default. 

[_nicdean]

I've used this alot now, and this should be a cool feature. But the render order is wrong. 

Why?

A crop is normally the first effect applied to an clip. Other graphic adjustments are then made: transforms, blurs, glows, shadows, rounded corners, etc.

As it stands, every time I reach for Intrinsic Crop I then have to switch to the Crop effect.

Main Example

Crop > Transform is one of the most common effect stacks. Transform effect is used heavily because it allows Motion Blur (Motion > Position does not).

• Try using Intrinsic Crop and then using a Transform effect. Currently, the entire effect stack renders and then the Intrinsic Crop is applied.
• In other words, the image moves INSIDE the crop.

Same argument applies for Drop Shadows, Glows, etc.

Easy Solution

It should operate the same as putting the "Crop" effect on a clip. Here is what the render order should be.

• Intrinsic Crop > Effect Stack > Motion 

[Mike-Berry]

Hi Nic -

This is why we still have the Crop effect. Intrinsic Crop is part of the Motion filter, and therefore executes at the last stage of the compositing stack. This is appropriate for some uses, but not for others as you note. For the others, just always putting it first is not always right either, so there will always be a place for an independent Crop filter.

[_nicdean]

Hi Mike, thanks for the explanation. This implementation is inappropriate for the vast majority of use cases. Crop is almost always the first applied effect to image/video. If a user wants Crop to render last, they can choose to put Crop at the bottom of an effect stack.

It's not a 50/50 use case. It's a 90/10 use case where Crop is used first.

Intrinsic Crop is currently more confusing to users and less useful than the crop effect. That's why I say it should be switched.

[Mike-Berry]

Now that it is released, it can't be switched as it is officially part of people's projects. The best that we could do would be to add a second Intrinsic Crop earlier in the stack. Additionally, our data does not show this to be a 90/10 case. A majority of users of the standalone Crop filter over the years do not put any other filters onto their track items.

Mike

[_nicdean]

Alrighty then, my piece is spoken. We'll see if users get confused now that it's out