Rotate video, ends up with letterbox

anders-svensson wrote on 6/22/2017, 12:16 PM

Hi,

 

I have Vegas 13 and I am trying to rotate a video but it doesn't work.

I have videos recorded on mobile that ended up standing, so I need to rotate them.

They are now 480 wide and 800 high and I need to have them 800x480 instead.

I've been googling and found that using the Track Motion, rotating -90 degrees should work.
Ok, it does... But I can't get the video to render in 800x480.
What ever output file I choose, HD, internet, avi, mov, DV, .... it doesnt matter....
I get a letterbox on all sides. The images are scaled and only half the size I want.

I have set project to 800x480 and it looks good in preview setting below the window but the video displayed are 1/4 black area around the video. Even when I add videos that are 800x480 (which shows perfectly in the preview with out letterboxes) the rotated video is scaled with letterboxes.
I'm totally out of ideas so please, could someone guid me to how to rotate 480x800 to 800x480 and render a video that is 800x480 and full screen?????

Comments

john_dennis wrote on 6/22/2017, 4:15 PM

Rather than go through every possible rotation scenario for every mobile phone in the known universe, I made this short video. It has all the steps. Maybe not in the order that you want, but...

anders-svensson wrote on 6/23/2017, 6:40 AM

WOW!
Thank you John!!!!

That was easy when you know how. I owe you one.
And big thank you for taking your time to do a video, thats much easier to follow.

You saved my hair and now I can continue with editing.
Again Thanks!!

JJKizak wrote on 6/23/2017, 7:38 AM

I think that would take me 10 years to figure out. Then another 10 to paste it to this forum.

JJK

john_dennis wrote on 6/23/2017, 7:54 AM

You're welcome.

It probably did take me ten years to figure it out.

Musicvid wrote on 6/23/2017, 12:18 PM

Meanwhile, here is what YouTube is doing....

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/23/youtubes-mobile-app-will-soon-better-display-all-video-formats-add-messaging/