When you're editing in Premiere Pro, you may want to focus on certain elements that the original director of photography or videographer didn't fully highlight, or you may want to crop out unnecessary distractions at the edges of your frame. 

Whatever the reason, Adobe Premiere Pro makes it easy to crop, rotate, and resize images, so you have the perfect frame. We've compiled this handy guide to help you get the hang of how to crop and resize images in Premiere Pro. 

How to Crop a Video in Premiere

Cropping video in Premiere Pro is easy. Just follow these simple steps:

Step 1: Drag the video you want to crop to your timeline.

Step 2: Open the video effects panel under the “Effects” workspace

Step 3: Locate the Effects menu and search for “Crop”

If you want to manually locate it, the crop effect should be located under the “Transform” folder.

Step 4: Go to your Effects control panel.

Step 5: Locate the "Crop" dropdown and use the values next to the left, right, top and bottom to crop your clip to the desired size. 

Step 6 (Optional): Zoom your cropped video in to fill the frame by clicking the “Zoom” checkbox