Rotating Smartphone video properly..

[Anonymous1]

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[smrpix]

What model Sony smartphone? If they are .mov files Quicktime Pro can rotate them losslessly.

[Anonymous1]

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[Anonymous1]

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[smrpix]

Not sure there's anything that will do it losslessly except quicktime. Unfortunately, the only way to know if it will accept your files is to try.

If you want to post a short, unmodified sample we can give it a go.

[TreeTops]

You said you tilted the phone in the wrong direction. So you took videos in the vertical position? If so then it is difficult to rotate without borders. Just have a look at the news tonight where someone has done that. You will see that they can't display it correctly either so the news broadcasters add fuzzy borders on both sides and leave the video as is.

[jagabo]

Keep in mind that quicktime doesn't really rotate the video. It just sets a flag in the header telling the player to rotate the video. Not all players will pay attention to that flag. So the only way to be sure all players play your video the way you want is to decompress it, rotate the frame, then recompress it. If you use a lossy codec you will lose some quality.

If you rotate a 1920x1080 the video right by 90 degrees you will have a 1080x1920 result. I don't know how the software you are using works. But you may need to use tricks like telling it first to add borders to the top and bottom to make a 1920x1920 frame, rotate that square image 90 degrees, then crop the result down to 1080x1920.

[theewizard]

There is rotating, and there is rotation, but you are never going to change the aspect ratio to wide screen unless crop off most of the top and bottom of the video, can't be done with out doing that
You can rotate it and lay it on its side to fill the screen, and everybody has to turn their head 90° to watch it
Our you can crop as much from the top and bottom you can live with, to get a picture in the center of the screen frame and live with the black side bars
The only two ways to fill the screen is distort it by stretching sideways, or crop way too much off the top and bottom

[Anonymous1]

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[theewizard]

why do you have to rotate it
does not MPC play it verically, the way you recorded it
if you need to rotate so you can share it, try AVI demux
be advise, the only way to get this in a std video frame is to recode it, the 1920 height will be reduced to 1080 at best and 480 for DVD
you will have big black bars on each side, of the recorded image, no way to avoid this
the TV news statement is correct, this is what happens when you hold the phone vertical, like talking, instead of sideways
there is NO way to fill the PC or TV screen, with the rotated image, that will not be distorted

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[theewizard]

I'm sorry but you keep confusing me
If you had recorded it correctly, it would be wide screen and fill the screen

When you change the video to the correct horizontal aspect, there will be black bars
This is Not the same as if you had recorded it correctly, it will only fill approx the middle third of the screen

This means the video will be re-encoded to the new frame format

I'm guessing you mean you want to recode all the videos to this black bar wide screen format, using a batch mode command script