How to crop and render a video in Adobe Premiere Pro Cs3

[Gerald_Sr_]

I would like to know how to crop and render a video in Adobe Premiere Pro Cs3.  I had tried several times but I couldn't remove the black borders. I went to export as a movie, but the video looks the same.

Gerald Sr.

[Kirsti-CA]

Hi, Gerald,

I'm moving your request to the Premiere Pro forum where there are community experts who can help you.

Thanks,

Kirsti

Adobe Community Help & Learning team

[John T Smith]

First... what are you editing... what is your project setting... what is your desired output?

[Jim_Simon]

The Help file will have the necessary instructions on how to use the software.  I recommend giving that a thorough read through.  Start at the beginning and go in sequence.  Try each new thing as you learn it.  Look up any words you do not fully understand.

[Gerald_Sr_]

I'm trying to restore an analog video from a vcr tape.  My output is an avi file.  I need to crop a lot of garbage from the edges of the video.

Gerald McClaren

[the_wine_snob]

Gerald,

For cleaning up the edges of a VCR tape conversion to digital, you will probably be best to use the Fixed Effects>Motion>Scale (to Zoom into the "clean" material) and then possibly a little Motion>Position, to move the Clip (now slightly Zoomed with Motion>Scale) around the Frame - this will effectively "crop" that Clip. It's like having a matte with an 8 x 10 aperture, and having an 8.5 x 11 Image below it. You only see through that 8 x 10 aperture, but can move that larger Image around a bit, below that matte.

Good luck,

Hunt