Premiere Pro 2015, Some Photos are sideways

Report · Jul 08, 2015

I'm very new at this, so any help would be appreciated.

Some of my photos are shown as horizontal when the should be vertical. I'm surprised there isn't a way to correct this with Premiere Pro, but from what I've read you can fix it with PhotoShop. I've tried the method I've read about by loading an individual image into PS and <Image>, <Image Rotation>, <Arbitray> then save and re import that specific picture back into PP, but its still sideways.

1. Is there a way in Premiere Pro to make a vertical photo that is sideways be vertical?

2. If not how do you do it with PhotoShop 2015?

3. Can you do it to all "sideways" photos at once ?

4. When I open in Photoshop they appear the correct direction. Is there a way to see which ones Premiere Pro will show as sideways so that I know which ones will need to be fixed? I have over 8,000 photos to work on and really don't want to search 1 at a time to see which ones import to Premiere sideways.

These are the properties of one picture for an example.... I know it has something to do with the pixels but being so new I just don't understand.

2014-09-16 15.47.28

4128 x 2322

00;00;04;29, 29.97 fps

48000 Hz - Stereo

Thanks you!

Clarissa

Report · Jul 08, 2015

Hi Clarissa,

Here's a suggestion. I'm sure cleverer people than I have even better suggestions!

To rotate a photograph once you've put it in a sequence:
Select (highlight) the photograph, click the effect controls tab in the top left panel
Click the little triangle next to the words " fx motion"
Where it says "rotation" you can click once so that the blue text is highlighted, then type in 90 or 270 and that will rotate your image 90 degrees clockwise and anticlockwise respectively.

Logically the next step would be to select lots of sideways photos on the timeline, and try and do the same thing. Unfortunatley that doesn't work. So, what you do is to select your "corrected" photo, and right click it and choose "copy". Now select all the other sideways photos and right click and choose "paste attributes". Select the box that says "motion" and then click OK. You'll find that your photos are all now rotated.

Does this help?

Cheers

Mark

Report · Jul 08, 2015

Thank you! That really helped me Feeling a bit dumb for not figuring it out.... But Thank YOU!!!!!

Report · Jul 08, 2015

‌If I had that problem I'd try exporting them from Lr in different formats, PSD is the biggest (size) format but Pr likes it the most. If you are not exporting from Lr it may be a formatting issue. I always export from Lr.

There is a simple way to rotate images- double click on the clip when in the timeline and under the Effect Controls (tab at top)go to Motion, spin the triangle down, you will find Rotation. Of course you have to have the play head over the clip/image you are working on.

I have never seen that happen, I suspect someone else (one of the real experts) may have a better solution, but this will keep you going.

Just remember changes made to clips or images in the timeline don't stay with the master file, that has to be done in the source window. If you use the image again you get more practice with rotation.

Report · Jul 08, 2015

‌and to answer your second question, Lightroom is a much better program than Ps to make those corrections, it has many easy to work with batch functions- like image rotation, exporting groups, setting size and aspect ratio. You can do it all in Ps, and even script it, but Lr is a much faster and easier option, in my opinion.

Import all of them into Lr, look at them in library grid mode, rotate as needed, then quick select, rename and or resize, choose file type and export the batch to a stills folder in your project file, then import the folder into the Pr project.

Report · Mar 21, 2016

All my son's images (hundreds he'd taken for a stop action movie that he wanted to make) were displaying upside down in Premier Pro. The option of adjusting the "Effects>Modify Fx>Rotate" was out of the question—too many images to do each manually. I used Barton's advice, imported the folder of images into Lr, and then exported, making sure to bring the maximum dimensions under 1000 pixels, as I thought this may be an oversize issue. (My project size is 1000x747). Sure enough, the images were right side up—problem solved.

Summary: Premier flips upside down any image that is larger than the project's dimensions. Use Lightroom to lower the dimensions at or below the project's size.

Report · Mar 21, 2016

Summary: Premier flips upside down any image that is larger than the project's dimensions.

Never heard of see this. And I have been using Premiere since version 6.5.

Might be holding the camera (phone) upside down?

Rotating image can be done in one go. Do one image and copy/paste attributes on the rest.

Or use the Transform effect (same workflow and gpu accelerated).