Every week, Frame.io Insider asks one of our expert contributors to share a tip, tool, or technique that they use all the time and couldn’t live without. Jarle Leirpoll demonstrates how to get Premiere Pro Auto Reframe to work the way you want.
The Auto Reframe Sequence feature in Premiere Pro can take the media from your 16×9 sequence and automatically reframe it to fit a new sequence with a different aspect. It can be a real time-saver for social media exports. Just click Sequence->Auto Reframe Sequence and choose your new aspect ratio.
The default results are usually decent and often need very little manual tweaking, but there’s one problem. The Auto-Reframe Sequence feature refuses to increase the width or height of the sequence. So the resulting frame size is often a non-standard resolution.
There are two ways you can fix this:
- Change the frame size of the reframed sequence and re-analyze the footage.
- Create a new sequence manually, copy everything over from the 16×9 sequence, and add the Auto-reframe effect to the clips.
I prefer option two. Hit Ctrl/Cmd+N to create a new sequence. Set the frame size to 1080×1350.
Go to the original sequence, hit Ctrl/Cmd+A to select everything, Ctrl/Cmd+C to copy, then go to the new sequence and hit Ctrl/Cmd + V to paste. Select the clips you want to reframe.
Search for “reframe” in the Effects panel, and drag the Auto Reframe effect onto one of the selected clips. It needs to go on Adjustment layers too, but not on MOGRTs and graphic clips, which should be dealt with manually.
If your graphics break when you change aspect ratio, read this Insider Tip.
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