Scale to frame not working

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August 24, 2025
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Scale to frame size not working.

I currently have my media preference set to "Scale to Frame Size" and the clips that I pull into my timeline "fit the frame size". As a work-around I've set my "F" key to "Fill Frame" and press it directly after pulling my clip into my timeline. Doing this for every clip is annoying and I just want my clips to automatically fill the frame once put into my timeline. I've tried resetting my adobe preferences/computer and newly importing clips but nothing works clips. Someone help please.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

Hi all,

I feel like I've (perhaps we all have) gone nuts!

Set preferences for scaling to none. @oteets, I think this is what you must have had this set to before, and when you somehow got it set to scale, that messed you up.

Import your horizontal 4K. Add to the timeline. Guess what? With no fit/fill action, It is centered vertically and horizontally and "fills" your vertical 1080x1920 frame: the 4K 2160 fills the vertical HD 1920. The excess 240 vertical pixels spill out the top and bottom, and the excess 2,760 spills outside the frame left and right. You can position it wherever you want, and you have a little excess to scale down for a perfect fit top and bottom.

Am I missing something? omg.

Stan

Ann Bens

Community Expert

The only time I can get this to work is to set the Preferences to NONE.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

The "bug" - I had the same feeling - is that there is no fit/fill option to function that way when putting a horizontal into a vertical timeline. I read something that suggested to me that one was intended for different ratios, but I did not test that.

The no fit/fill option just brings it in as 100%, which "fills" only because of the relative sizes.

Stan

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Does your sequence setting match the height and width of the media?

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oteetsAuthor

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thanks for the reply, no. my sequence is 1080x1920 and my footage is 4K. there was once a time i didn't have this issue, i would just place my 4K footage into my HD timeline and the frame would be filled. i would even have extra room to move the footage around in frame due to the increased resolution. it's annoying thats this is no longer the case