Effects and transitions

You can adjust the position, scale, and rotation of a clip and Lighting Effects lights by directly manipulating handles in the Program Monitor. You can also adjust the properties using the controls in the Effect Controls panel.

Note: Direct manipulation is also available for the following effects: Corner Pin, Crop, Garbage Matte, Mirror, Transform, and Twirl.

1Select a clip in a Timeline panel, and move the current-time indicator to a location of a frame within the clip. Ensure that the Uniform Scale checkbox of the Motion effect is deselected.

2Do one of the following:

•(Lighting Effects only) Apply the Lighting Effects to the clip and then click the Transform icon next to Lighting Effects in the Effect Controls panel.

•(Motion effect only) Click the clip in the Program Monitor or click the Transform icon next to Motion in the Effect Controls panel.

The handles and clip anchor point appear in the Program Monitor.

3 In the Program Monitor, do any of the following:

•To position a clip or lighting effect, click in the clip or effect outline and drag to reposition it. Don’t drag a handle to reposition the clip or lighting effect.

•To scale freely, drag a corner handle.

•To scale along one dimension only, drag a side (not a corner) handle.

•To scale proportionally, Shift-drag a corner handle.

Note: When using the Motion effect to scale a clip, scaling images over 100% can make them look blocky or pixelated.

•To rotate a clip or effect, position the pointer slightly outside any of the handles, so that the pointer changes into the Rotate icon and drag. Shift-drag constrains the rotations to 45° increments. For the Motion effect, you can also drag in a circular motion until the clip rotates the number of times you want to create multiple rotations.

•To update only the wireframe outline of the frame, Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) any handle. This may give faster results for clips with large dimensions or for slow systems.

To animate the motion, scaling, or rotation over time, set keyframes as you manipulate the clip or effect in the Program Monitor.

Details of scaling in Premiere Pro CS5 and later, plus some other information about CUDA processing.

Andrew Devis shows panning, zooming, and using the Corner Pin effect in this video tutorial.

Franklin McMahon provides a video tutorial on the Layers Magazine website that shows how to use the Motion effect to move, scale, and animate clips.

More Help topics

“Animate motion in the Program Monitor” on page 295

Scale assets

When you drag an asset into a sequence, by default Premiere Pro preserves its frame size and centers the asset in the program frame. Alternatively, you can automatically scale imported assets to the project’s default frame size. You can rescale the asset without distortion if its pixel aspect ratio has been interpreted correctly.

Scale assets manually

1 Drag the asset into a sequence and select the asset.

Last updated 1/16/2012