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Adjusting clip size and rotation

Adjusting clip size and rotation - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Premiere Pro CS5 Essential Training

Adjusting clip size and rotation

So, let's talk a little bit about adjusting the size and rotation of clips. We're going to, again, be using the sun clip on the sun track in our project here. We have our anchor point fixed from the last movie. Let's first talk about Size. We adjust size with a property called Scale. By default, we're at 100%. Typically, you don't want to go above 100% because as you can see here, the line starts getting a little blurry, a little soft. Actually, I'll resize this maybe, so we can get this a little bigger. So, our other layers are a little bit more sharp and our layers that go above 100%, again, start getting little fuzzy on the edges and start losing their resolution. Well, we can scale this down, and that's totally legal, try not to scale above 100%. I'm just going to manually click in here and take this to 100%. There's also the Uniform Scale value, and actually I could click this little chevron that points to the right to expand this. I want to uncheck Uniform Scale, and that allows…

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