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Imported portrait footage shows as landscape footage when opening on another mac.

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December 1, 2025
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Hi there. I am working with a collegue on a film project. I started the prodject on my mac book, created 10 sequences, all in 1080x1920. I imported all the portrait mode footage, placed it in the 9:16 compositions. The entire footage was filmed in portrait mode and premiere recognized it . So the rotation settings on all clips are 0°. And it all looks just fine.

But as soon as my collegue openes the file on her mac, a lot (not all) of the footage is suddenly tunred to landscape mode, also showing 0° on the rotation settings.

She could turn it by 90° and the problem would be solved – but only on her machine. When I open the file on my computer… the "corrected" files will be turned by 90° and what showed correct before is wrong now. What the hell is going on?

We are both on the same Premiere Version (25.6.2) on a Mac Book Pro running on Mac OS 15.5

Import and ingest

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daniels53766830Author

Inspiring

Hi there and thanks for your answer/question. It took me some time but I figured it out. But first answers to your questions: we updated our OS to the latest version. Same counts for the premiere version. This didn't change a thing. Just a waist of time. The difference of our two Mac books is that I am working for a longer time with video editing tools and had other applications installed before. Like Final Cut. But at some point I might also have installed the "Apple Pro Video Formats" https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2050

This made the job as it installed spnipplets into the QuickTime library so premiere can handle the files right (especially the orientation tags).
the problem lied in premiere as my OS showed the videos right. The preview was right. Opening in quick time was right. Even in photoshop. So, installing pro video formats did the job. Should be a part of the entire premiere installation.

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Dani_V.

Community Manager

Hi @daniels53766830,

Thank you for reporting a problem and sorry you've been experiencing issues. What kind of source/camera footage are you working with?

Within Finder, do these affected clips show up as vertical/have portrait oriented thumbnails on both machines? Are you both linking to the exact same footage/from the same location?

And just to confirm, both of you are in the same MacOS version and MacBook Pro model (what year/chip?) as well?

Sorry for the frustration,

Dani

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