Rotating source footage 90deg (landscape to vertical)

Forum|Forum|7 months ago
August 27, 2025
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Hello, everyone,

I would love to ask for help or a tip:
I shot vertical video, that is on PC in PrPro interpreted as landscape. Could you provide me with a quick tip, how to elegantly and effortlessly transform it from ladnscape to vertical?

I would love to avoid:
- in Sequence edits, because I reuse a lot of footage and the time, clicks and "oh I forgot to do it there" add up.

- I learned about source effects (lumetri is awesome!) but transform would work only if the footage was a square. Like this it remains 16x9, rotates the picture 90deg to be 9x16, but the "video canvas" is still 19x9.
- ingest or proxy - I work with normal mp4 files and adding extra time to wait and chew down the footage is not optimal.

Gents and Ladies, thank you very much for any tip or path I can research. This would be a valuable piece of optimization knowhow, that I would be very greatful for. 😊

Take care and stay healthy!

Ann Bens

Community Expert

If you dont want to use the source clip effect you will have to change the orientation before bringing the clips into Premiere.

For the mac there seems to be a tool for this, window you can use Shutter Encoder.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

My notes didn't help as much as I hoped. It depends on your particular issue.

The transform source effect should work, and the canvas being off doesn't matter so much. The exception is when your workflow/style requires seeing the image in the Source Monitor correctly.

My approach involves figuring out what the issue is and using exiftool to change the rotation flag as required. Most of my samples are from iPhones. It happens with regular cameras, particularly if you do not set the rotation flag required for that camera. And my only .mp4 example was an android where I was holding the camera vertically (accidentally) when I pressed record, then turned it horizontally for the rest of the take.

In any event, give me more information about the camera used, pixel size, and how PR is seeing it. Or post a link to a short sample file.

Stan

Stan Jones

Community Expert

I'm not at home and don't have my notes. So my answer will be incomplete.

Transform should work. Make sure you haven't applied any scaling until you know you have what you want.

but as some other users, you'd like your footage to be correct upon import to PR. I use exiftool for this purpose, and change the rotation flag in my incorrect footage. Or sometimes there's no flag and one needs to be set.

I can explain further when I have my notes.

Stan

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