Creating a rotated video?

darren-c wrote on 4/12/2018, 9:03 AM

Hi all, I picked up Vegas Pro today and have created a nice little project where I intend to use a portrait orientated 1080p screen to have effectively 3 strips of video playing independently (1 video occumpying the top 1/3rd of the screen, 1 video centre, 1 video lower 3rd) I set my project to 1920x1080 and rotated by 90 degrees. I spent the past few hours scaling individual tracks so all the videos are playing and look great however, when I render, it just renders the first track as full screen instead of the rotated 1/3rd portion I require.

I hope you understand my explanation here, Im pretty new to Video creation.

Thanks for reading.

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Marco. wrote on 4/12/2018, 9:24 AM

Unfortunately Vegas Pro does not support setting a rotation flag in the render process. So try rendering to 1080x1920 instead. This works for most cases except proper smartphone use.

darren-c wrote on 4/12/2018, 9:39 AM

Thanks Marco, that seems to have done the trick. The video in question is to be used for my virtual pinball machine so its important it exports in the required orientation!

I have rendered the file but it is huuuge! a 90 second video is 7GB! Is there anyway to reduce the size?

Thanks for the help :)

Marco. wrote on 4/12/2018, 9:43 AM

File size depends on render bit rate. If you selected a render codec with adjustable bit rate, reduce the bit rate. Else, select a different render type such like one of the AVC renderers. For 25 fps HD video rendered as AVC, bit rates between 12 and 24 Mbit/s might be fine.

darren-c wrote on 4/12/2018, 9:53 AM

Got it! Its now down to an acceptable 400Mb and upon testing on the pinball machine it works perfectly! Thanks for the assistance Marco.