Premiere Pro "Scale to Frame Size" not working

[stephen_7873]

In Premere Pro 2025 the action "Scale to Frame Size" is not working properly.  I have this set to the keyboard shortcut 'control+Q'.  When I press the keyboard shortcut, control+Q, the footage will scale to frame size as long as I'm holding it down, but when I release control+Q the footage will go back to it's previous size in the timeline.   In Premeire Pro 2024 all I had to do was hit control+Q and it would scale to frame size and keep it that way.

[Ann Bens]

When Premiere is acting up reset preferences.

[MyerPj · Accepted solution]

Are you sure you want to use SCALE to frame size. FIT to frame and FILL frame both offer advantages to Scale. Scale loses the pixels, thus if you want to zoom in greater than 100% you will start to lose quality, wheras with Fit you can use those extra pixels to zoom in a bit and not lose quality. 

[stephen_7873]

MyerPj, thanks for the advice on Fit To Frame vs Scale To Frame.   I agree this is a better method when, for example, putting 4K footage into a 1080p timeline so you can still zoom without losing pixels.

Luckily this keyboard command is working too so I'll just forget about scale to frame size 😉

[MyerPj]

I kinda think of Scale as a legacy option, Fit is much better in nearly all cases.

[Sumeet Kumar Choubey]

Hi stephen_7873,

We're sorry about the poor experience. I'm unable to reproduce this issue at my end. Could you please confirm if you are using a custom keyboard shortcut preset? If so, for testing purposes, please try using a different preset or mapping the command to a different key combination & see if it's making any difference. 

Thanks,

Sumeet