rotate artboard for export

[bryanoooo2]

Hi All

I'm producing advertisements for digital pods, but the company who manages the pods requires the final artwork to be rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise. - I can't figure out how to do this, and I can't get the image to rotate in quicktime player after I've exported it either. Can anyone help?

(sorry it feels like a silly question, but I can't find an answer anywhere) - The only solution I have is to build the ads from scratch already rotated, which is proving awkward.

I'd appreciate any advice you could offer.

Bryan

[dj.summitt · Accepted solution]

There's not really a "rotate artboard" option but prior to rendering you could PreCompose everything and rotate the PreComp.

Select everything on your timeline. Control Shift C. Then rotate the resulting PreComp

[bryanoooo2]

Thanks so much, That works perfectly. One strange thing I notice though, when I precompose and rotate as you describe, I then have to change the composition settings, so that the artboard fits the now rotated artwork before I export it, but even though I use exact same dimensions the rotated artwork no longer fits. So my original layout was 1920px high and 1080 wide. Once I have rotated the artwork I go to composition settings and make it 1080px high and 1920px wide. The artwork that fit perfectly when the artboard was upright no longer fits when its rotated 90 degrees. (see image below)

[Dave Merchant]

Check your pixel aspect ratios. Your green box is 16:9, but your comp sure isn't.

[dj.summitt]

Dave is correct. Without seeing the Comp settings on the original and the new comps it is impossible to say. Just by eye, the green backing of the new Comp is correct. The poster piece is either not 1920x1080 or the pixel aspect ratio is off on the precomp.

[bryanoooo2]

Thanks Dave and DJ.

I agree that in the previous screenshot the green background looks to be 1920x1080 and the artwork looks wrong, but the strange thing

is that before I rotate the artwork it is correct. It is the act of rotating it that makes it no longer the correct ratio. Below is a screenshot of just before I rotated it. you can see it looks right. - Im interested in what dj said about the aspect ration being off on the precomp...not sure what that means but maybe that is the answer?...will have to look into it!

[dj.summitt]

Open the PreComp and screenshot the Composition Settings and post that. I'm betting that your settings do not match.