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CS4 motion changes after rendering
So, I’m new to Premiere hoping to make a change to something more lightweight and agile than FCP. I shot a video in “portrait” orientation and now need to rotate it 90 degrees and scale accordingly to fit my canvas. I did this in After Effects with no problems, but then decided I wanted to import the project into Premiere for ease of cutting up the clip. The video was now far off-centered on the canvas from where it had been. I fixed it visually, but after rendering it shrunk down, distorted the aspect ratio and moved to a different part of the canvas. I thought this might have to do with the data from AE, so I deleted the effect and redid it using the motion drop down in Premiere. Same thing happened upon rendering. Any ideas what is going on here? I’m at a loss.
Thanks,
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is there any reason to bring this footage into After Effects beyond rotation and scaling? The reason being is Premier can also do this. If you select the clip in the timeline and go to the effects control panel you will see the motion controls. You can expand this area, select rotation and scaling, and be done with it. Alternately you can right-click the clip and select scale to frame size and it will fit the longest end and create shadow boxes if the footage is not the same aspect ratio.
I would double check all sequence settings in After Effects and Premier as I think there is some mismatching with size or aspect ratio between the two programs or your footage.
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Well, like I said, I redid everything in Premiere to test that wasn’t the problem. However, I just realized I never flipped the “canvas” (or whatever you want to call it) to portrait in Premiere…in fact, I don’t think you can do so. Do you think that’s the problem? I guess maybe I should do all my editing in After Effects for this one.
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You may be looking at this the wrong way. In Premier your sequence settings are kind of like your canvas. Now, while you cannot rotate your canvas directly, the video clip itself is like a layer and this can be rotated. Basically what you want to do is set up a sequence that’s in portrait mode and then take the video that, I believe, is laying on its side and rotate that 90° using the motion effects control.
Since I cannot see exactly what is going on, I’m trying to take the process and distill it down to something that is very simple and still give you a result. Otherwise, you have to be a bit more clear in what you have now and what you want your finished product to be without muddying the waters with trying to describe what you’ve done so far.
I hope that doesn’t come off as harsh, but it’s a troubleshooting technique that I learned while working tech support for an Internet company.
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You have it right. I just can’t figure out how to set up my sequence in portrait mode. Can that even be done in Premiere?
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New Sequence > General tab, change your editing mode to “Desktop”, this will give you the ultimate flexibility in setting up sequence sizes, framerates, whatever you need.
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Thanks! Looks like the problem was in exporting from After Effects.
Unfortunately, now I can’t seem to figure out why, after rendering a sequence, I can only seem to playback about a second’s worth of footage. I posted about it here in relation to a different project: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/910165.
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