Filmed in Portrait mode accidently on mobile - want landscap

[garjobo123]

Hello

Please can someone advise me.

I accidently filmed a sequence in portrait mode on my mobile. However, I naturally want it landscape - avoiding those horrible black borders. Keen not to lose much quality obviously - cropping etc...can someone please tell me an easy, effective method to do this. I checked YouTube...various ideas for other programmes out there...but couldn't see one for videostudio.

thanking you in advance.

[garjobo123]

.oh..and im using VS 9 btw

[weaver]

You should enlarge the picture as much as you can ( from quality point of view). You must always count with quality loss. When you find the optimal size, than you can crop.
There is one option - quite popular in professional world, enlarge the original to maximum and add some fuzzy filter. This will be your background and on top of that you can place your original cropped to the hight of the screen. There is no black border but something moving in synchron with the original picture and has mostly the same color content. ( less disturbing)

[garjobo123]

Weaver thanks for the reply.

It is not promising to read however.

How do I enlarge as much as possible?

The second option of a fuzzy filter etc is out of the question. I do not like that effect.

I want to simply enlarge the image to the max. screen possible. If there is a way of enlarging please let me know.

[weaver]

If you put the clip on the overlay track you get a frame what you can pull with a mouse to set the size. There is also a filter I think is called as zoom what will also change the size. ( in the properties you can set the size.)

[lata]

Hi
Using Customise Motion is quite versatile, a good alternative, right click the clip for options

Set the first keyframe (size) you may need over 250 to remove the side borders.
Set Position Y to move frame down to reveal more of the top?
Right click keyframe for copy and paste to all will set last keyframe

You could zoom into the video as it plays which may work well
The zoom will reduce quality

I have to say weavers thoughts of filling the background with the same video stretched to fit I believe is a good option.
When I used that I change the colour to monotone and blurred a little.
Maybe does not work for a single clip

[garjobo123]

Thanks Lata and Weaver.

Still not keen at all on the background suggestion. I want a seamless portrait to landscape shot. Tis a very shame this seems not possible without reducing quality. I have twisted the image..pulling the guides which surround the clip all angles so I have managed to get a full screen shot..albeit one which looks...a little...not too shabby...like the original.

The whole motion thang confuses me and this slow zoom in...not for me.

[lata]

What version of Video Studio are you using as the latest versions have a scale option for clips in the top track, the small square icons below the preview screen, depends on the version you are using.

There are several options to zoom
1 . pan and zoom
2 . The scale mode
3 . Some FX filters
4 . Customise Motion

The latter as I mentioned in my other reply is very useful and versatile

Today I do not have access to my pc, but when i do will provide a screenshot which should help
In the meantime read the user guides regarding Pan and Zoom and Customise Motion, again a feature you should get uesd to.

There are quite a few editing options that use keyframing, you do need to become familiar in their use, certainly will benefit / improve your editing techniques

[weaver]

Thanks Lata and Weaver.

Still not keen at all on the background suggestion. I want a seamless portrait to landscape shot. Tis a very shame this seems not possible without reducing quality. I have twisted the image..pulling the guides which surround the clip all angles so I have managed to get a full screen shot..albeit one which looks...a little...not too shabby...like the original.

The whole motion thang confuses me and this slow zoom in...not for me.

Do not forget, that for the landscape view of your portret video from your phone you will always loose cca 1/2 of content:
(If your phone makes a simple HD video 1920x1080, in portret mode you have to remove (1920-1080)x1080 pixels (2 mil pixels -0,9 mil pixels). This is just the first step now your picture fills the heigth of the frame, with side bars. To fill the width you need to enlarge each pixel by 1,7, ie. the resolution drops. There are no tricks to avoid this quality loss.
In lucky case when your phone makes a 4 k video the adjustment to HD size is easier, but I think your VS is just X9,with probably no support for 4k videos.

[tletter]

I naturally want it landscape

There is no way to change a video filmed in portrait mode into a landscape format without losing a significant part of the captured scene, i.e. you'll have to crop to get the target aspect mode. Of course you could stretch your portrait mode video into landscape aspect but that would distort the scene and probably look terrible.

avoiding those horrible black borders

I'd suggest that if you want to keep all of the scene captured in the portrait mode, you explore different types of borders that would look OK.

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