Rotate so letter-box does not rotate with the video.

wsmyth · Post by **wsmyth** » Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:10 am

Unfortunately, my video is portrait with black letter-boxing on both sides. I try to rotate it, and it rotates the letterbox with it, so there is black space above and below. How do I enlarge the video so that it fills the entire video window in 16 x 9? I am running Ultimate 2023. The attached video is with a rotate clicked once.

Thank you.

By the way, is this the correct way of submitting .VSP and .MP4 files for review?

Post by **lata** » Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:20 am

Hi
There seems to be two things going on here Portrait or Landscape.
although the video looks as though portrait it is actually a widescreen video, the left and right sections being transparent, rather unusual
I would suggest you check / change your recording settings, if you can.

First i inserted the video to the timelines this set the project to 1920 x 1080 widescreen
Changed the background to blue to id the actual frame.
Used the crop tool to remove the transparencies'.
Now the video looks like a portrait
Use the scale mode to fit to widith with keep aspect ratio,

I have attached a smart package with video and text info.

wsmyth.zip: opens using VS 2023; (23.87 MiB) Downloaded 24 times

: click image for larger view

wsmyth · Post by **wsmyth** » Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:00 pm

Thanks lata. You have helped me several times and I greatly appreciate it. I thought I had tried all these and I could not get it to work. I do not have time this morning, but I think I will later today, and your steps seem straightforward to follow.

The video was taken as a screen recording. It was the only way I could get the AR feature to record the video. This is why it is recorded in portrait (landscape?) when I want it to be recorded in the other. Either way, I will document what we did so that when it occurs in the future, I will know what to do.

wsmyth · Post by **wsmyth** » Fri Jan 19, 2024 5:44 am

I was able to test your suggestions this evening, and am happy to report that I was able to rotate to my heart's desire. I needed to do some image stabilizing, and this caused a bit more consternation, but I finished it. You can see it here.

https://flickr.com/photos/billsmyth/534 ... 0314087907

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