Set Frame vs Scale to Frame

[Jon Doughtie]

The answer depends in part on the footage, of course. If seeing a lot of fine detail is important, you may wish to let the footage be cropped. You might have to add some “pan and scan” to utilize some of the shots.

If fine detail is not an issue, then you can scale to 1080 and see the entire image.

Really, both approaches reduce the amount of visual data presented. One eliminates part of the shot, but gives you full resolution of the portion you can see (up to 1920×1080). The other gives you the entire image, but not all the image information.

Ultimately, if your deliverables are 1920×1080, you can use either or both approaches, depending on what any individual shot requires. You will probably want to experiment with a few shots and see what you think of the rendered output.

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[Rj Miles]

Thanks for the reply…

I just wondered if there was any inherent difference in the way the two methods work, such that one might provide superior image quality when zooming into the source material. Thanks

[Jerry Wise]

use “set to frame size”. then you can zoom in and pan around and lose no quality.

[Peter Garaway]

Hi RJ,

Here’s a very helpful video from Colin explaining Set To Frame Size vs Scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU9S2gjFyG8

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

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[Rj Miles]

Thanks Peter. Excellent. Exactly what I was trying to figure out and now I have my answer.

Set to Frame size is what I want, as others have said, so I can playing the source image without degrading the image.

[Rj Miles]

OK… just had my 1st issue with Set to Frame.

The issue … after I made an adjustment to scale, when I hit play the image size on the screen was reduced by 50%. When I stop playback, image goes back to full size. I’d note this seems to be a random bug and is not easily repeated, but once it happens, the only solution seems to be to revert to Scale to Frame and continue with the changes to the clip.

Anyone else see this bug?

Looks like I’m going to have to use Scale to Frame until I can get a fix to this bug.