CS4 Cropping Problem

All of a sudden I've had a strange problem with the cropping tool in CS4(11).
The cropping outline doesn't seem to keep up with the cursor. The cropping outline ends up much smaller than what was attempted by the cursor.

WTF?
Adobe...if it aint broke, don't fixit.
Looks like this will be my last upgrade. I just want a good photo processing app, and PS is getting way too complicated. Very good alternatives are becoming available insofar as RAW is concerned at a much more attractive price point.

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@Jacob & Mylenium: I don't have any stroked path in my artwork. I've tried to add a no fill/no stroke rectangle (same size as my artwork and then a bit bigger) but it didn't work.
Your advices gave me an idea though: I've added a filled rectangle slightly bigger than my artwork, centered it and dropped its opacity to 0%, it worked.
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Crop effect
The Crop effect trims rows of pixels from the edges of a clip and automatically resizes the trimmed clip to its original dimensions. Use the slider controls to crop each edge of the clip separately. You can crop by pixels or image percentage.
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After the crop the trimmed clip is not resized to it's original dimensions.
No way I can find to switch the controls to pixels.
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There is a zoom option check box that will automatically resize the cropped clip to the full dimensions of the sequence. I dont remember that option available in previous versions and I know I never used if it was.
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Just curious in regards to all of these "CS4 Crashing" problems.
1) Before updating to Snow leopard, did you people do due diligence by at the very least checking the S.M.A.R.T. status of your drives and do a Permission Repair first BEFORE updating?
2) Did you make a clone of your working perfectly Leopard disk, or at least do a current (minutes before) Time machine backup?
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Now after all of that... did ya still "freely" and without a gun to your head, update to Snow Leopard... a brand spankin' new (dot.zero) OS release and expect absolutely NO bugs: small, large or just inconvenient for the time being?
And now your whining here?... and complaining to Apple?
Have any of you considered reverting to your clone of Leo 10.5.8 until certain issues (yours) have been fail-safely fixed?
For the record, I did a straight-up SL update on a 2.16 CoreDuo MBP, and a 2008 8-core MacPro with NO problems! Everything working fine in 32-bit and 64-bit (MacPro), including even FreeHand under Rosetta.
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DocPixel-BMW wrote:
Well on one hand, I was guilty of letting out a rant against all of the whiners... on the other I was trying to be a bit helpful.
Maybe it will cause someone to think before starting another "Adobe or Apple must die or fix this" thread. It grates on the nerves... considering most should "fix" their expectations, upgrade habits, and most of all, the area between their ears first... BEFORE posting.
Welcome to the common sense club. A club with very few members.

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I have an external hard drive to which I export my encoded CS4 video files once I have finished editing. The problem is that, in doing so, space seems to be used also on my C drive. I need to find and delete these files on my C drive once my PP project files are rendered to my external drive. I have looked in temp files but they not there. Can anyone advise me on this?

That's done it S.V. Many thanks!
Lewis B.
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:13:53 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: CS4 Export Problem
I'm a newbie so don't take my word as gospel buuuuttt....
If you're using Vista you might be making the same mistake as me. Go edit>preferences>media, hover the mouse over the media cache files location (i.e. C:\yadayada) and TYPE that into the bar at the top of the my computer. Don't click through and try and find it, TYPE it like you would an internet address in a web browser.
Silly Vista.
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Desktop composition enabled: Yes
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Some thing here might help:
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http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
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This solution also works when you have similar problems with shape layers.

I have encountered a cropping problem in cs4

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scarpakb wrote:
…working on is 1920 x 2560 pixels with resolution 350 dpi, so it is not a resolution issue…
What I was wondering about was not the resolution of your document, but the value you may have entered in the Crop Tool's Resolution box in the Options Bar of the Crop Tool.
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