Video orientation is not completely horizontal as intended/Help!

[Canon GL-2 Guy]

How do I rectify this problem?

Yesterday I filmed a presentation at church where I thought I had the shot composed & framed of the speaker at the pulpit exactly horizontal, level, straight, flush and even like it should be.

However, I discovered latter in the day that that wasn’t the case as the Canon XH-A1’s lcd had deceived me. Of course my eyes are not improving with the years either. LOL.

Instead, what resulted was the picture/video’s orientation (or whatever terminology should be used here) instead of being perfectly horizontal, was tilted at a slight but very noticeable angle and on an axis.

I put a lot of time, energy & effort into this shoot and understandably do not want to broadcast this material in its present state.

How do I salvage this video so I can make it look like originally intended as it was slightly tilted to one side by accident?

What tools & processes are available that will correct this state of affairs?

All input appreciated.

[poisondeathray]

So you're saying it's rotated? what axis ?

If it's on the z-axis you could fix it in premiere (I know you have premiere from other threads) by using "rotate" in the effects control panel

If the angle changes over time, you can fix it by changing the values (keyframe over time)

In order to get rid of black edges, you may have to scale up the footage slightly

[jagabo]

Just about every editor has rotation filters.

[Canon GL-2 Guy]

Yes, I was wondering what to do with the resulting black areas after rotating the clip only a 1/2 a degree or so which is all that was needed.

Could I just somehow just trim off a smidgen of the frame which the black parts cover so that they are at least level, proportional and & even?

Could I do this while this clip is on the project time line nestled between other clips?

I know nothing how to scale with Prem Pro, sorry!

Wouldn't the process of scaling stretch and in a way downgrade the footage quality a bit by doing so?

[poisondeathray]

Yes, I was wondering what to do with the resulting black areas after rotating the clip only a 1/2 a degree or so which is all that was needed.

Could I just somehow just trim off a smidgen of the frame which the black parts cover so that they are at least level, proportional and & even?

Could I do this while this clip is on the project time line nestled between other clips?

I know nothing how to scale with Prem Pro, sorry!

Wouldn't the process of scaling stretch and in a way downgrade the footage quality a bit by doing so?

You scale up the clip , and the areas that reside outside of the sequence dimensions, won't be rendered in the final export . Think of it as "zooming in" - all the stuff outside of the framed view of the box dimensions won't matter

With the clip selected, go to the effects control panel and twirl down the " motion" heading. Under that submenu will be a "scale" parameter set to 100 by default. If you increase it, it will upscale, decreasing will scale down .

Any kind of scaling will degrade footage a tiny bit, moreso if it's interlaced footage. But if your rotation is only 1 degree or less, then the amount you have to scale will be very tiny, and your quality deterioration will be proportional to the amount of scaling i.e tiny

[Canon GL-2 Guy]

Will give it a go and report back to you. Thanks!

[Canon GL-2 Guy]

Since the footage comes from a borrowed Canon A1, I believe this footage is interlaced.