How to Crop a Video in Premiere Pro

Learn how to crop a video in Adobe Premiere Pro to remove unwanted edges, hide distracting objects, and reframe your footage. This tutorial shows how to adjust the Left, Right, Top, and Bottom crop settings in the Properties panel, then use Scale and Position to fill your composition. You'll see why a cropped area becomes transparent, how a lower video track can show through it, and how to use the legacy Crop effect in older Premiere Pro versions. We also explain a common confusion: cropping a clip does not change the size or aspect ratio of the sequence itself. Useful for cleaning up shots and preparing vertical or square video layouts.