invalid argument creating vertical video

Angelica-Perduta wrote on 10/15/2018, 2:54 AM

product: Movie Studio 14.0 platinum

I recorded in portrait mode, height:1920 width:1080 using my Google Pixel smart phone.

Now I want to edit this video, but keeping the same format and not adding black bars on the sides.

So I choose MP4, Sony AVC/MVC, custom template width:1080 and height:1920.

Alas then it complains "invalid argument". It will however let me make it width:607 by height:1080, which is the correct aspect ratio, but I would prefer a higher resolution. Are there a combination of settings that will allow that please?

Comments

Marco. wrote on 10/15/2018, 3:56 AM

Sony AVC is limited in various ways. Better use MainConcept AVC.

Angelica-Perduta wrote on 10/15/2018, 4:32 AM

Thank you for the quick response 😃

That works perfectly in version 14. I also tested it with a trial version Vegas 16 where the one to use is called Magix AVC and that works too.

Marco. wrote on 10/15/2018, 5:02 AM

Actually this ain't perfect. See what happens when using such video on a smartphone with orientation set to auto mode. It doesn't work correctly because neither Vegas Pro nor Movie Studio does set proper 180° rotation meta data. It would need to patch such files with a tool like FFmpeg to get this rotation meta data.

Musicvid wrote on 10/17/2018, 10:41 AM

Try Handbrake. It honors Apple rotation flags.

Angelica-Perduta wrote on 10/17/2018, 3:03 PM

Try Handbrake. It honors Apple rotation flags.

I'm not having any problems with creating or playing vertical videos. I simply right click the footage in Movie Studio then choose the rotation that puts it upright. It then seems to play on my smart phone, on my desktop and also on Youtube in the orientation I intended.

j-v wrote on 10/17/2018, 3:35 PM

I'm not having any problems with creating or playing vertical videos. I simply right click the footage in Movie Studio then choose the rotation that puts it upright. It then seems to play on my smart phone, on my desktop and also on Youtube in the orientation I intended.

Here exactly the same, the only problems give the rendering helped with a GPU or the old Sony AVC .
They refuse to render.
The export will everywhere be recognised as 1080x1920.