![]() ![]() Here’s how to rotate a video using Sony Vegas Pro 10: Though Sony Vegas is less powerful than Adobe Premiere, I find it much simpler to use. I am only a beginner with both programs, so there may be better ways to do what I am attempting to do below. Instructions on how to rotate a video file using Sony Vegas Pro 10 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 on Windows 7 follow. All three functions are usually only found in commercial video editing software such as Adobe Premiere. ![]() To rotate a video without introducing black bars requires a program that can rotate the video, change the resolution (to avoid black bars), and re-encode with minimal video quality loss. If you must rotate a video file (perhaps because you wish to use Windows Media Player), you will want to use a commercial video editor. In the meantime, the workaround is to rotate the video using the Google Plus interface.) (Supposedly, the new Google Photos does not support video rotation yet, but should eventually. I read that some online services, such as YouTube and Google Plus, do support video rotation on imported videos, but have not tried them myself yet. QuickTime Pro has a rotate video function which does not really rotate the video, but does adjust the video file’s rotation data permanently instead. (Unfortunately, Windows Media Player does not make use of the video rotation data.) In addition, VLC allows manual adjustment of the playback video orientation (menu “Tools->Effects and Filters->Video Effects->Geometry->Transform->Rotate by 90 degrees”), but does not permanently change the video file’s rotation data. Some video players, like VLC and QuickTime Player, will act on that rotation data to show the video correctly on computers. Recent smartphones will embed the rotation information into the video file. (Using free video editors, like Windows Movie Maker or Mac OS X iMovie, to rotate videos will result in such travesties.) Portrait videos were usually shoehorned into a widescreen frame, resulting in ugly black bars on the left and right. Have you ever taken a vertical portrait video using your iPhone, import it to your computer, find that Windows Media Player will play it horizontally, and gotten a neck crick from holding your head sideways? Since the beginning, vertical portrait videos (tall and skinny) have been unwanted and unsupported, living in the shadow of the horizontal landscape videos (short and wide).
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