Vertical video to horizontal video

[soso9]

Hello,

I have a video that was taken vertically with a galaxy s7 and I would like to know how to put it horizontally with "premiere pro cc 2018". Just so you know, she's upright.

Thanks in advance

[Peru Bob]

Crop it  and zoom.

Or add a background on a track below on a sequence of the proper size.  Maybe blur the background and add a feather.

[soso9]

Crop it  and zoom : the video takes 100% of the screen.

Then, how can I add a background on a track on a sequence of the proper size ?

If you want I can show you.

[jeffp68340199]

If you zoom and crop to fill screen, you will lose a great deal of the image (top and bottom cut off), and also hurt the quality since you are "blowing up" the image so much. What I see every day on the news is this - put your vertical video into regular 1920x1080 sequence (on V2 track), and scale so you see the whole thing top to bottom. You will have empty black space on the sides of course.

Put SAME clip on V1 right below V2 clip, use Motion > Scale and uncheck Uniform Scale, then adjust Width to make the V1 image wider until it fills the screen side to side. Next add Gaussian Blur effect and blur background to taste.

This way, the "background" video that fills in the sides will have matching colors/content to the actual video clip in center of screen. Viewer focuses on video action in center and because sides "match", far less distracting than black bars. People are used to seeing videos this way and don't even notice really.

Thanks

Jeff

[soso9]

Thanks for your response. I tried to do it but it doens't work.

As you can see on the screenshots I modified the resolution (position in french) 1920*1080 and I unchecked Uniform Scale (Echelle Uniforme). But then when I adjust the width (largeur d’échelle) the image disappears (>100) and shrinks (<100).

[Richard M Knight]

You may need to rotate 90 degrees

[soso9]

Why ? the video is upright.