PD 12 rotate video

BillHansen

Senior Member Joined: Jan 03, 2012 12:43 Messages: 178 Offline

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Jan 19, 2016 21:05

I've been sent a single-clip video (it's a cell phone video of one of my dogs using a treadmill) which is oriented very awkwardly. I want to edit it, and part of that is that I want to rotate it 90 degrees. Normally that would involve using Power Tools, cropping, and rotating the cropped video 90 degrees. But when I try that, PD 12 always stops working. The only choice is to close the program and start again. I've inserted a link to the video, so you can see the problem.

https://youtu.be/or2wa-bLqiI Bill Hansen

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Jan 19, 2016 21:57

Quote: I've been sent a single-clip video (it's a cell phone video of one of my dogs using a treadmill) which is oriented very awkwardly. I want to edit it, and part of that is that I want to rotate it 90 degrees. Normally that would involve using Power Tools, cropping, and rotating the cropped video 90 degrees. But when I try that, PD 12 always stops working. The only choice is to close the program and start again. I've inserted a link to the video, so you can see the problem.

https://youtu.be/or2wa-bLqiI

Put the clip on the PD timeline, select Clip mode on the preview. Put up mouse pointer on the top of the blue circle, press and hold left mouse button, drag the clip to the orientation you want. You may have to resize the image to fit the vertical.

Produce the video to keep that orientation.

That video is shot in vertical, you will get a very narrow image with lots of black on the sides. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

James Dotson

Senior Contributor Location: Tennessee Joined: Aug 24, 2009 20:40 Messages: 3066 Offline

Jan 19, 2016 21:59

Select the clip on the time line. In the center of the preview window you should see a little circle. You can grab that and spin it. I don't know why you have a crash problem. __________________________________
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BillHansen

Senior Member Joined: Jan 03, 2012 12:43 Messages: 178 Offline

Jan 20, 2016 08:10

Thanks Carl and Jaime-esque - That worked perfectly, and it worked much better than trying the rotation in Power Tools. After brightening and a little sharpening and color adjustment, the resulting video clip is in the process of being uploaded to Vimeo. I knew there would be big bars of black, and that's fine.
Bill Hansen