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Fit footage to entire screen proportionally
I’m an AE user starting out in Premiere, so sorry for this noob question.
I’m working on a fairly simple, but lengthy, slideshow (Ken Burns), which is the precise the reason I decided to learn PR instead of doing it the longer and more tedious route in AE.
In AE there’s a shortcut to fit footage to comp, comp height, and comp width – very simple. I’ve searched high and wide (pun partially intended), but I just couldn’t find any way to automatically fit an image to the screen proportionally without leaving letter- or pillarboxing. I have to do this on each and every of more than a hundred images.
What am I missing?
P.S. Any additional Ken Burns workflow tips in PR will be appreciated, as well.
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7 Replies
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First and foremost, make sure that you’re using the proper Sequence preset (think Composition Settings from AE) for your needs. Do you want to deliver as SD, 720p, 1080p? Frame rate? So start there.
Next, there is a checkbox in Edit > Preferences > General for “Scale to Frame Size”. If you enable that, any media imported from that point on will automatically scale to the frame. However, depending on aspect ratio/proportions of media, you may have black bars – scale to frame does not CROP the media for you, nor would I want it to, since it would not know what part of the image was acceptable to cut off. It fits the whole image inside your frame.
For media imported prior to changing that setting, you can right-click any clip on the timeline (sequence) and manually enable/disable on a per-clip basis. If you want to do any Ken Burns-type pan and scan on images that are higher resolution than the project, do NOT use Scale to Frame! Rather, use the native resolution and then change scaling using Adobe Motion effect with keyframes, as that will use all available resolution of original media when scaling in Premiere.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
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Thanks, Jeff, for your response.
The way I envisioned my workflow for this project, is to have automatically all footage fit to frame proportionally and a scale keyframe automatically added at the beginning and end of each of them, that way I need only to jump from one image to the next fluently and just move it at their beginning an end to its desired positions on screen, without having to manually add two keyframes on each end of every single image.
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I’ve used this a couple of times on big groups of images
https://prolost.com/blog/2013/7/23/prolost-burns.html
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That’s for Premiere, as well?
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Be aware that if all of the images are the same size, you can scale all of them on the timeline at once. You just set the first one to fit the way you want it using the scale parameter of the Motion effect and then copy the image. Then select all of the rest and Paste Attributes.
That will get them all to be the same size.
Once you have a few different panning moves set up, you can copy one and paste the attributes on a similar image. Then just make the minor adjustments necessary to position the image.
Steven
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Yes love that, so easy to use.
And no: AE only.———————————————–
Adobe Certified Expert Premiere Pro CC
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OMG! You solved my problem! Scale to frame size worked! Although, I figured out that after I checked “scale to frame size,” i had to restart my project, and drag the picture back in. I was turning a music album into a video, with the album cover as the still picture in the video. And scale to frame size made the album cover take up the whole screen, instead of the picture being really small. It’s a rare album and I could only find a small picture online.
So, thanks! 😀
And thanks to the op for posting the question! 😀
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