How to Scale and Crop

I'm working on animating some screen capture footage. I'm trying to crop out part of the screen and replace it with my own background, and then do some moves. However, when I zoom in to the footage, it throws off my crop - the crop moves with the zoom instead of staying stationary like I want it to. In other words, I want my custom background to stay the same size and for the box that the screen capture is in to stay the same size (crop the clip). What it's doing instead is cropping the image itself, so that if I scale the image up, the crop moves along with it.
How do I apply the crop on top of the scale, as part of the clip itself rather than just cropping the image? I'd rather mess with compound clips.
Thanks!

Compound clips are nothing more than "groups". In order to supercede clip level edits, sometimes it's necessary to edit the group instead.
Crop is part of the media, as is scaling. Scaling the media scales the crop.
Here are three ways to accomplish the effect you're looking for:
1)
Select your clip and type Option-G (make compound ["group"])
Add the cropping you need to the compound level and not the clip itself
2)
Select your clip and make compound
Add Effects > Keying > Mask to the the compound level (optional rounded corners and feathering)
3)
Place a Generator > Elements > Shapes at the top level (over the clip you want cropped)
[Select Square and use Video > Transform > Scale to alter the "aspect"]
Set the Video > Compositing > Blend Mode to Stencil Alpha
Select the generator and your clip and make a compound clip (option-G) [creating the compound here is simply to "stop" the action of the Alpha blend mode from "cutting through" the entire project
HTH

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