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Rotate iphone 4 Video in Adobe Premiere CS5
I have a 2 minute video taken with my iphone 4.
About 30 seconds in, I rotate the phone from a “portrait” position to a landscape position.
Now comes time to edit…
What I would like to do is keep the first 30 seconds as is and rotate the rest to fill the widescreen frame.
I have tried to rotate it using the motion video effect under effect controls but when I do that, I lose the left and right sides of the clip as it keeps the “portrait” look.
In other words, the clip is rotating inside of the portrait instead of the entire frame rotating (which is what I want to do).
Thanks in advance for the help!
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9 Replies
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You are turning a 16×9 image on it’s end. You’ll need to zoom in to fill the screen or add something underneath.
Chris Tompkins
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I don’t understand why it’s even allowed to shoot video this way. What possible use could there be for video in portrait mode?
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I recently had to edit some iPhone 4 clips with the same issue. I did the job in FCP X instead of FCP 7, just to try it out. FWIW I’m not familiar with Premier, but some simple keyframing is all you need.
Place a keyframe on both scale and rotation at the first frame where the camera begins to rotate. leave them alone. Then place another keyframe on both scale and rotation at the last frame of the camera’s rotation. Adjust these keyframes to make the clip fit the frame.
That should give you the first 30 seconds of unaltered portrait view, then it rotates to fit full-frame for the rest of the clip.
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You’d have to scale it up pretty far to fill the entire frame. You’ll see a loss of quality as well. I’d leave it pillar boxed to save some quality. Best of luck.
Kevin Monahan
Sr. Content and Community Lead
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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I had no idea this would be such an involved process. Im not much further in getting an answer than when i started.
Not knowing Premiere pro very well, it still seems like a simple task to just slice the clip before and after the phone rotation then rotate the entire second clip into a landscape view. Am i missing something here???
Seems like a pretty simple task.
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So slice it on each side of the rotate.
Select the chunk to be turned.
Go to motion in effects tab.
Rotate.
Render.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Ok, I rotated the clip. Went to export->media and exported.
Im missing about 25 percent of the frame on the left and the right…thats the problem Im trying to fix. And the movie is letterboxed for what remains in the frame.
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Right, well, as stated in this post b/4. Zoom in or leave it or fill the back ground. Those are your choices.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Ok I assume by zooming I’m to change the scale under motion in that same effects panel….when i get it to 56%, the whole frame is viewable (within the portrait of black).
The video is so much smaller….
This kinda blows my mind that I can’t just rotate the video and re-render and save it. Like when I have a picture in windows, I rotate it in picture/fax viewer, and it saves it with correct rotation forever. Seems so simple, I wouldn’t have guessed you cant do that with a video.
Why is that?
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