Exporting a vertical image

[Bouke Vahl]

It highly depends on the output format.
Some computers allow to rotate the screen, in that case normal export would be good.
You can also use QT pro to rotate the display setting.
Or, make a sequence that is 9:16, paste in your work and rotate the whole shebang, then render out.
(most illogical option in my book, but again, it highly depends on what the intended output is.)

So, talk to your client about what he is going to do, then decide what is wise.

Bouke

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[Matthew Zuckerman]

Thank you.

One more question if you don’t mind…
They want a full res quicktime movie exported at the equivalent of 1920×1080 so they can show it on an 82″flat screen which will be turned on it’s side so it is 82″ tall.
… if I exported this as a quicktime movie from fcp and brought it into quicktime pro, what settings would I use for the export?

Thanks again.

[Walter Soyka]

[Matthew Zuckerman] “They want a full res quicktime movie exported at the equivalent of 1920×1080 so they can show it on an 82″flat screen which will be turned on it’s side so it is 82″ tall… if I exported this as a quicktime movie from fcp and brought it into quicktime pro, what settings would I use for the export?”

Like Bouke said, you need more details from your client. Specifically, what’s the playback device, what are its requirements, and which way is the screen rotated (clockwise or counterclockwise).

Unless the system explicitly expects a portrait image, you probably don’t want to rotate the video yourself. Nearly all portrait displays play standard content (designed sideways) in a regular 16×9 frame; it’s the rotation of the display itself that makes everything right-side up.

For video material, this often means shooting with the camera rotated 90º and editing with your monitor rotated 90º. For motion graphics or composited material, you may work in a 9:16 frame before rotating back to standard 16:9.

How was your content produced?

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[Mark Petereit]

Render your video out at normal 16:9. Copy it, pull it up in QuickTime and rotate it 180-degrees (so it’s upside down). Deliver both files. If they pull one up and it’s upside down, tell them to use the other.

[Walter Biscardi]

If they are rotating the TV, then all you have to do is essentially edit sideways. You will edit in your normal 1080 timeline, but you’ll have everything rotated 90 degrees in your Sequence.

Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. Once the TV is rotated, then the image displays correctly vertically.

As someone else mentioned in this thread, one trick in the field is to literally turn the camera 90 degrees to shoot “vertically”. This is done a lot in the fashion world so they can stay on a tighter shot of the model and she fills the screen.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Mary Toman]

I was wondering how this worked out for you. I have the same delivery specs (1920×1080) for an upcoming project. How did you end up doing it? Were there any problems?

[Matthew Zuckerman]

Hmm… how quickly we forget.

After a ton of back and forth – I finally found out that the client planned on just rotating the monitor.

I ended up rotating all my images and footage sideways – while editing on a timeline of 19200×1080. So when they rotated the monitor it was the correct format for what they needed.

I hope this helps.

[Hal Hansen]

My client wants their mobile e-commerce sits to play a video that is 9:16 verticle. Like a verticle iPhone pic would show.
I have FCP and iMovie. Any thoughts on how to do it>