How to fix “video cropping problem” in Adobe Premiere Pro

Have you ever dragged down a video to the timeline just to see Premiere Pro crop that video and only show like… half of it?

This is most likely because your sequence settings don’t match the actual video clip.

How to fix video cropping problem in Premiere Pro

There are 2 ways to fix this and which method to choose depends on what you want to achieve.

Method 1:
The first method is to right-click on the clip and then click “Set to Frame Size”.

This will scale your clip up or down to match the size of your sequence.

Method 2:
The other method is to scale the sequence to match the size of the clip instead.

You do that by going up to the menu, clicking Premiere Pro, Preferences, and Timeline.

Here, make sure that you have selected the “Show Clip Mismatch Warning dialog” and then click OK.

Now, whenever you try to add a clip from the project window to the timeline that doesn’t match the sequence, a pop-up window will appear, giving you two options.

Here, you click “Change sequence settings” and then the sequence will increase (or decrease) in size to match the size of your clip.