fit to fill

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fit to fill

Posted by Donal Young on February 25, 2013 at 10:48 pm

Hi,

I’m pretty new to Premiere and thought I could do a three point edit by setting I and O on the time line and I on the source clip but it doesn’t work. It might also be called a fit to fill edit but whatever its called, I can’t make it happen.

I’m used to Final Cut and it would perform this type of edit. Any advice would be welcome.

Don

Will Eccleston replied 12 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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Jon Barrie
February 25, 2013 at 11:14 pm

G’day Don,

This feature is in there, just not as exposed as with FCP.

Set the IO range on the timeline, then set the IO range on the clip in the Source Monitor (FCP Viewer).

Make sure you have the track targeting selected correctly. Outside highlight from source against the inside track highlight (only – no other tracks highlighted) on the track you want to perform the fit to fill.

Now select the overlay button from the source.

This will present some options. Select Fit to Fill.

Hope this helped.

Cheers JB 🙂

Jon Barrie
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Donal Young
February 25, 2013 at 11:35 pm

Hi Jon,

Thanks for responding. I’m a bit confused about the track targeting with highlights part. I just tried an edit again to no avail.

Also, pressing the overwrite or insert button does nothing. I see in keyboard short cuts
. for overwrite and , for insert but they are inactive as well. I haven’t seen a window that gives me an option for fit to fill.

Not sure what I’m doing wrong or if something is wrong with the software.

Any further assistance is appreciated. I went through the tutorial on lynda.com and even made notes but this doesn’t seem to be working for me.

Best,

Don
Jon Barrie
February 26, 2013 at 1:00 pm

Hey Don,

It sounds like you haven’t used the target track process. You need to select the video track name you want the add the overwrite to and have the little V sit next to it.

Check this page on how to set up track targeting and the “fit to fill” option.

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS1c9bc5c2e465a58a91cf0b1038518aef7-7d27a.html

Cheers JB

Jon Barrie
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Nate Priest
October 1, 2013 at 11:22 pm

For the most part, I am happy with Premiere and am glad to have moved away from FCP, but there are still these moments when I encounter features that I miss. It sure was nice having the fit to fill command one mouse click away 🙁
Will Eccleston
December 13, 2013 at 2:13 pm

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fill out the Feature Request form for this and all other features you’d like to see. Adobe is listening, and, in my opinion, really knocking it out. But the missing “Fit to Fill” shortcut is one of a number of glaring omissions that annoys the crap out of me on a regular basis.

Feature request here:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Will Eccleston
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