PP CS4 Crop Effect clarification

PP CS4 Crop Effect Help
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.
Two Problems:
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.
Thanks.

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.
I can see where this option might be useful especially with a higher resolution still by making an easy way to scale up from somewhere other than the center of the frame instead of needing to combine scale and motion keyfranes. It would be kind of like moving the anchor point in After Effects and then scaling.

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