handbrake conversion of vertical 1080 iphone footage

[Michael Grenadier]

So I've got a client who doesn't have a clue (is that perhaps the definition of a client) who shot an even with her iphone held vertically.  She was shooting 1080 so I would assume that I should make the handbrake preset 1080x1920.  However, handbrake doesn't seem to let me set the dimensions to that.

Even though I set the vertical dimension to 1920, it resets to 1862.  Is this something I should worry about?

I've quickly checked the handbrake site and will keep digging but figured someone here might have the answer.

thanks

Grenadier

[Michael Grenadier]

never mind.  I think the problem was that I was modifying an existing preset that seemed to prevent setting the correct pixel dimensions.   I'm doing a test right now and will post back if it works.  Now if I can only remember how I fixed it...

[Meg The Dog]

If that does not work for you, I recently used Edit Ready ($$) succesfully  to transcode a bunch of  Vertical iPhone footage to ProRes and lock the VBR source to 29.97.

https://www.divergentmedia.com/editready 

MtD

[Michael Grenadier]

I've got editready so I may go there.  I'd prefer to transcode to prores rather than staying with mp4...  

Thanks as always

[Michael Grenadier]

Editready seems much better.  can convert to any flavor of prores (I assume) and convert audio to uncompresssed 48k and constant frame rate.  For those who don't already have editready and don't want to spend the money, handbrake is great...

[Michael Grenadier]

of course dealing with vertical phone videos can make you crazy.  open original .mov in quicktime player and it reports 1080x1920.  Use edit ready to convert keeping pixel dimensions and bring in to premiere, get clip properties and it reports 1920x1080.  But if you select the clip in the bin, the preview area reports 1080x1920 and if you make sequence from clip it is 1080x1920.  All actual good but in a way I'd just as soon control this stuff rather than having it happen automatically.