12.1.0: most videos are upside down

[johng41717309]

I've recently updated Adobe Premiere 2018 to the most recent version, and have found out, that half of my videos on timeline are rotated upside down. These videos were shot on iPhone. So now I have to manually check all the videos and manually change Rotation parameter. That is very very annoying.

Last version of Premiere 2018 brought to me unstable behaviour, random sound clips replacements, incorrect exporting to Audition, slow rendering (it took me ONE WEEK to render 1 hour timeline. In 2017 Premiere it was about one day to render THE SAME project). And now this new feature...

It would be nice to have an option to downgrade project file to 2017/2015 version, or to have STABLE version of the app.

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

You can only downgrade to 2017 (unless you have 2015 still on your computer).

Export to xml and import into 2017 or try this:

Open a New Premiere Pro Project on an Older Version! New PP Project on Older version, no software! -...

[johng41717309]

Thanks for great advice! Editing XML of project file solved my downgrade problem.

[dougwwff]

Working with a 90-minute feature all shot using a 4K RED camera. Everything was fine until PrPro changed from v13.0.3 to v13.1 last week and then many scenes in my project were upside down. They appear to be randomly scattered throughout the timeline. It looked like there were approximately 50 upside down scenes that used to be fine. There seemed to be no pattern - some are in large groups, some in small groups, some are a single isolated shot. Also strange are cases where some scenes and a separate VFX were both flipped. Tried everything including a totally different graphics board and drivers plus changing setting in Files | Project Settings | General | Video Rendering and Playback | Renderer to make sure it is set to "Mercury Playback Engine Software Only".  No CUDA since had trouble with it before. Didn't work.

Got on a chat session today and just got to the start of the solution when the session died for some reason (lost connection). The solution for me was:

Down rev back to 13.0.3 (just before all this happened) and also under Files | Project Settings | General | Video Rendering and Playback | Renderer, to make sure it is still set to "Mercury Playback Engine Software Only" and not the hardware CUDA.   With the hardware CUDA set, it was upside down but as soon as I chose software only all the offending upside down images went back to normal.

Now I am a happy camper again.