Premiere Pro 2015, Some Photos are sideways

‌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.

‌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.

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