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Terry Esslinger wrote on 2/12/2009, 9:30 AM
Unless you held your camera sideways when you filmed the video will be captured right side up. If you put the clip on a time line and it is sideways then an Fx is or pan/crop or track motion change has been made. If all clips placed on a track are that way the problem is probably in the track header. Check all the settings. If jus certain clips are that way then for some reason some setting in that clip has been changed. Is either the pan/crop sign or the Fx sign turned green? If so something is applied. You'll have to root it out.
Chienworks wrote on 2/12/2009, 2:57 PM
I would guess the most likely cause is tipping the camera. Some inexperienced* videographers will do this because they want an image that is taller than it is wide (take THAT, all you 16:9 advocates! muahahahaha), and this is the way to do that when shooting still images. It doesn't occur to them that people aren't going to rotate the television screen for those shots.

In any case, pan/crop is the way to fix this. If the camera was rotated then use pan/crop to unrotate the image. If the image was rotated with pan/crop, then turn off the pan/crop rotation.

*I'll note that some very experienced videographers might do this too for artistic effect.
richard-amirault wrote on 2/12/2009, 5:59 PM
Some inexperienced* videographers will do this because they want an image that is taller than it is wide

Been there, done that, have the t-shirt :-(

But that was a long time ago .. and have never done it since.