How do I crop a frame in Premiere Pro CS6?

Question

In FCP, you can crop a frame by going to wireframe and simply adjusting it to crop the image area you want to show. I want to maintain 16:9 but simple make the clip 'zoomed in' to an area that I want. It won't be too drastic of a crop. Does Premiere Pro have the ability to do this?
TIA,
Ken

Answer 1

I see that, like the beginner that I am, I used the wrong terminology. Crop does indeed crop, but, working in print media for most of my life, what I was looking for was to seclect a portion of the view and 'enlarge it' to fill the frame with some selective positioning of the area to be used. It might be more correctly called 'zooming in' on an area of the original frame, and also filling the frame with that selected area. I hope that this helps give an idea of what I am after.
Another way of putting it might be like a car in the distance coming at the camera and then getting close to the camera. With that scene, what I would want to do is start by filling the frame with the car in the distance and keyframe a 'zoom out' effect that would keep the car filling the screen and eventually wind up with the car close to the camera. So the car would be big, filling the frame, all the while it was coming toward the camera. I belive this would be called starting with a full zoom and then 'zooming out' until the car was at the point near the camera.
PS: after trying everything again, I see that 'Scale' is indeed the answer to what I wanted. Keeping things centered on the screen is a trick and I've added many keyframes, almost at every frame in one instance, to keep the subject centered on screen. Also, I see that 600% is the maximum scale I can use to start with, so some responsibility must lie in the hands of the videographer and the zoom lens on the camera.
Any comments you have to possible help as I flounder with my beginning efforts would be appreciated. I believe control will come if I put the time in now.