How to change a picture's width/height by specific pixels instead of Scale Percent?

[VahePogossian]

Hi everyone! I'm learning Premiere Pro and transitioning from Camtasia Studio. I've come to a stop and need help.

I have a picture in Premiere Pro that I need to set to a specific width and height. My sequence is 1920x1080 and the picture needs to be set to 600x400 pixels and aligned in the centre.

The Effects controls allows me to change the size by using the Scale value, which is only percents. How can I scale the picture to a specific pixel value?

I tried adding the 'Transform' Effect onto the image to have more control but there's no pixel value to set there either. 

Appreciate any input. Thanks in advance.

[MyerPj]

You can turn on the Ruler and/or Guide Lines using the Wrench icon to lower right of Program Monitor.

Then for the picture you can uncheck Uniform Scale and set the Anchor point to 0, 0

Then do the sizing in the program monitor.

[VahePogossian]

Thank you for your help! I did what you said but when I drag the handles to scale the picture, the lower and right side scale handles don't snap to the guides. Is there a way to make this precise?

 

[MyerPj]

Yes, under the VIEW menu, you can:

A) Lock Guides - so they stay where you set them.

B) Turn on - Snap in Program Monitor

That should get you there, let me know how that works...

[VahePogossian]

The Snap was on since the beginning. I locked the guides but still can't snap the edges to them. Made a gif to show the problem. I hope it's clearer.

 

[MyerPj]

Yes, I do see that, Strange it snaps to the edges when you are moving the image around, but not when resizing?

I'm thinking of another way also... create a 600x400 sequence and drop your clips into it. Then you can use that sequence in the edit. You can have just one, and drop in all the clips and just set edit points on that sequence in the main sequence. Or have a bunch of sequences @ 600x400. And just use those into the main sequence. Finally, you might be better off since they seem to be just pictures to simply editing them in Photoshop or any editor and make the size you want. Then bring them into PP like that - and with that, you can make a more extensive grid guide and snap the pictures to it.

[bonaca285094967g2p]

2024 - the problem still exists

famous Adobe

[Ali Jaber]

I beleive that Adobe should add another field besides the scale property to set it by pixels. To sum up: there should be 2 fields besides the scale property, one to set it by percentage, the other to set it by pixels. Adobe staff should add this feature to both: Ae and Pr.

[Ann Bens]

You can still use the guides: can be set to pixels or percentage.

and turn on Snap in Program monitor

[Ali Jaber]

That's a lot of steps instead of simply setting numerically the desired dimensions of the clip.

[Ann Bens]

Why on earth would you want to set scale to pixels (assuming uniform scale is off)

It will just add distortion just like percentage does.

Crop would fit the bill better in pixels imo.

[Ali Jaber]

Setting the scale in pixels is useful in many case scenarios, "Set to Frame Size" for example will resize clips to fit in the program monitor, which, depending on the aspect ratio of the footage, may lead to black borders, in this case it's easier to set the scale by pixels to make that footage fills exactly the sequence's width (or height depending on the aspect ratio).

Or let's say you have 2 images of the dimensions 4000x3000 px and you want to scale both so they fit to the width of a sequence, which is for example 1920x1080, in this case it's easier to set the width of an image to 960px instead of doing calculations to get the scale by percentage...

[trashcaneron]

dear god I can't believe I have to render massive sequences in After Effects because I can't add 2 pixels to a scale! It won't even let me do the math version of it! Where height is 100.0005% it just ignores the number 😞

[Ali Jaber]

Yes, this is sad. Have you tried copy and paste the footage from Ae to Pr? Probably it won't work in your case, but give it a try.

[Ann Bens]

To get back to the original question;

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