Reframing in Premiere Pro: 8k to 4k or 2k

[prakash d]

Hello Folks,

I have seen Red Tutorial videos, using 8k footage and selecting part of the image for re-framing, using Cropping in RedCine-x.
I tried checking forums about Premiere Pro, but there is no satisfactory answer. Some say crop, others say zoom and scale to frame etc..

Say my Editing Sequence setting is 4k, in Premiere Pro:

• How can I pick a 4k portion of 8k image from anywhere on the image?
• How can I pick even smaller portion of the image, lesser than 4k, but fit to 4k? Say if I shot a full size of a person, i want to take only the face portion?

Can anyone please provide the steps to do this?

 

[Edwin Perez]

Have you tried selecting your clip in the timeline, going to 'effects controls', twirling down the 'Motion' options and changing your position and scale values?


If your sequence is 4k and you import 8k footage it should already be 'windowed' to 4k in your timeline (ie, you won't be seeing the entire 8k frame so you'll have to recompose/zoom as you wish). It should just be a matter of moving and zooming as mentioned above.

 

[prakash d]

Thanks for the reply Edwin.

So when zooming, does't the footage lose its crispness.
which mean it gets grainy with zoom. i'snt it?

• How can I pick even smaller portion of the image, lesser than 4k, but fit to 4k?
• ---Say if I shot a full size of a person, i want to take only the face portion, but fill the screen without losing clarity of image?

 

[Fabricio Morato]

Hey, what dictates your "crispiness" is the sequence size.
So if your sequence e is 2k and your footage is 8k and it's set to scale to frame size, you could "zoom" in a lot until it reaches the 1:1 size of the 8k. If it's set to 4k then you still can punch in a lot, but less then the 2k sequence. And if you are editing in 8k then any zoom the software will be creating new pixels and loosing clarity.

Hope this helps.

 

[Joel Arvidsson]

Never use scale to frame size. Adobe will throw away alot of image information. Just drop in the 8k in your 2k sequence and use the motion tabs scale instead.

 

[Satnam Khalsa]

You can use "SET to frame size". This option automatically sets the motion tab to fit the whole picture into the image. I.E. 8K to 4K this option will set the zoom to 50%.

 

[Andrei Goaga]

Make a comp the final size of your delivery - 2K or 4K

Drop the clips and select - Keep sequence settings

Right click your clips - Set to frame size.

Now your motion tab will display a zoom value. Less that 100. You can't go lower as you will start getting black bars on the side.

Don't go above 100% as that will scale the original pixels and you will start lossing quality.

Don't try to set it at 100% either or 90 or close to that as you are starting to losse the benefits of oversampling. So a 2K crop from an 8K image will look way less inferior than scaling 8K to 2K.

Play with this an see what works good for you.