Crop without losing quality

[marsham9139737]

I am pulling in video from a webcam as well as slides from Zoom. I am placing them side-by-side (I do not want to use the screen share and speaker view as the speaker is too small in the video). I crop out the sides, top, and bottom from the webcam video to make the speaker larger. However, it no longer fills the frame and is really small. I select "Zoom" in Effects but it makes it blurry. What is the best way to crop off sides of a video in Premiere but yet retain the same size and not lose quality and get blurriness? Thanks! 

[Ann Bens]

 What is the best way to crop off sides of a video in Premiere but yet retain the same size and not lose quality and get blurriness? Thanks! 

By @marsham9139737

There is no best way. Cropping and then scaling up will always result in image quality loss within Premiere.

You can use After Effects with Detail perserving upscale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRK53DQMkB0

or

Video Enhance AI – Video Quality Software

[marsham9139737]

Is there anyway to change the blue outline of the frame to match the new size of the image (on the left). It makes it hard to center when there is so much blank space around the cropped video. Thanks!

[Ann Bens]

Not after using the crop effect.

Use the ruler and guides.

[marsham9139737]

How do you determine what the resulting video dimensions will be to export to the new dimensions after cropping? I'm going to try to export with the smaller size and see if that will look better when I add that to a sequence. 

[marsham9139737]

More specifically, I want to export this newly cropped video in the dimensions that it has (I do not want the dimensions of the blue frame). Any suggestions how to do this?