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Edit video using the Properties panel

Learn how to quickly modify the appearance of your clip by transforming, cropping, and adjusting its speed with the Properties panel in Adobe Premiere Pro.

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Learn how to edit video in the Properties panel using simple steps.

Before you begin:

Create a project, import media, and assemble a sequence on the timeline.

  1. Select the clip in the timeline.

  2. Use Position, Scale, Anchor Point, Rotation, and Opacity to transform your clips, or use the Fill frame and Fit to frame quick actions:

    • Transform: Select either Fill frame or Fit to frame to automatically adjust the size of the video. Fill Frame scales the content to completely fill the frame, which can lead to cropping parts of the image if its aspect ratio differs from that of the frame. Fit to Frame, on the other hand, means adjusting the content so that it completely fits within the frame while maintaining its original aspect ratio; if the aspect ratios don't match, this may result in letterboxing (black bars).
    • Crop: Adjust the percentages to crop pixels from the top, bottom, left, and right edges of your video.
    • Adjust speed: It opens Clip speed/duration option to help you quickly speed up or slow down your video.
    You can transform, crop, or adjust the speed of the video using quick actions available under the Properties panel.
    You can transform, crop, or adjust the speed of the video using the Properties panel.

Tip:

You can edit the properties of multiple clips simultaneously by highlighting multiple graphics in your timeline.

If all values of the highlighted clips match across the selection, the control will show that value. Overwriting that value will change this for every selected clip.

If not all values match across the selection, the control will indicate this with a dash. Dragging the dash will relatively increase or decrease the value of each track item.

Select the dash and overwrite the control with the same absolute value for all clips in the selection.

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