Rotate video 90 degrees?

[Bill Buchanan]

I can’t wait to read all the responses to this one. Of course you can rotate the image any degree you wish with Premiere. Unfortunately, what you cannot do with Premiere is convert it to a baseball bat you can lend to your friend to use on the Darwin’s Award candidate who “held the camera at 90 degrees.” Is this a new style of wedding video that can be watched by the blishful couple as they lie on their sides in bed?

Bill Buchanan
Buchanan Film Co.

[Brian De herrera-schnering]

May be the shooter was a photographer trying to get vertical framing?

Brian

[David Loschiavo]

I appreciate the initial comments….

How is this done in Premiere, a video filter? This may surprise you but this is a first for me. I was going to check Imaginate by Canopus, I believe there is a way in Imaginate to fix this.

[Pedigree-punk]

In the Effects Control panel, click on the arrow to reveal options – select motion – select rotation – adjust your picture by required amount.

If you haven’t come across the effects panel before, select window – workspace – effects…all will be revealed.

Your friend might like to check out:
https://www.baseball-bats.net
😉

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[Steven L. gotz]

OK. Here is the way I would deal with it.

Rotate the image 90 degrees using the Motion Effect. That is your best way to rotate it as far as I can tell.

Scale the image down on track two to see the entire thing which will give you black bars on each side. Fill the background with a pretty motion background using the colors of the wedding by putting it on track one. You may find the shooter left lots of room around the subject on the sides, so you may not have to scale it down all the way.

In the area of the video with the motion background, superimpose small closeups that were taken by the photographer during the wedding. You can restrict the images to the area over the background, or you can float them slightly over the edge of the video so they look like they are actually floating. Use a drop shadow.

There is no magical way to make a portrait shot into a landscape shot. No magic at all. Zooming in can’t be done without loss of quality. So make it look like it was done on purpose. Use baby pictures if you need to. Pictures of the ceremony. Frozen frames from the movie itself. Use your imagination.

Just don’t expect it to look like it was shot normally.

Steven
https://www.stevengotz.com

[Marc Bech]

I would suggest switching to Corel’s VideoStudio Pro. You can rotate any video as easily as you would rotate an image (1-click). And it costs under $100.

[Donato Greco]

I uploaded a short (50 sec.) video on vimeo where you can see how to rotate 180 degrees a clip in Premiere Pro. It is intended for users of a 35 mm depth of field adapters on consumer/prosumer camcorders (I used it for my footage with Canon HV30), such as Twoneil, Redrock M2, Letus35, DIY and so on, but you can adapt instructions for a 90 degrees clip rotation 😉

Even if it has italian language instructions, I added english callouts for everyone to understand !-)

donatogreco.com

[Titoinaburrito Burbano]

10 years later.. Quick and easy.
1) upload a known good horizontal video and add it to your time line. – This video will set the dimensions.
2) now add the vertical video to your timeline.
3) delete the horizontal video from the timeline.
4) Rotate and scale your vertical video.
– You will no longer see the 2 horizontal lines on the side. The video will cover the whole image space. Keep AdobePremiere it’s a good program.

[Ramona Boston]

Excellent, excellent, excellent Steven. Thank you for taking the time. I am smart enough to figure out when I’ve made a mistake and appreciate your offering a solution!

[Jonny Webb]

As i needed to do this recently, i thought i’d post my method (its quicker and easier)

import video into premiere
rightclick video -> choose New Sequence from Clip
click on clip
goto Effects -> Motion -> Rotation and enter 90
click on MenuSequence -> sequence Settings -> change EditingMode to Custom ->
now swap the Frame Size numbers. (the 720 becomes 1280 and vice versa)

Done !

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