D90 and Video Mode in Portrait Position

[diane_madura]

<p>I apologize if this has been covered before. If it has, I cannot find the answer on any forums.</p>

<p>I took a video in portrait orientation using a D90. I don't have my camera set to display pictures that were taken in portrait orientation in the proper way. That means that a video taken in portrait orientation plays back sideways. </p>

<p>Does anyone know how to change it to play back in the upright position?</p>

[robbie_robertson]

<p>Can't be done. It'll also play back sideways on your PC and TV. The inherent nature of video keeps the images in landscape- You don't turn your video camera in its side when taping, right?</p>

[hans_janssen]

<p>Put your TV in the portrait position.</p>

[Peter_in_PA]

<p>You can certainly rotate that video in a video editing application such as Final Cut Express on the Mac or probably Premiere on the PC. Then re-render it so it plays out properly on other people's systems.</p>

<p>Keep in mind, there's really no such thing as a practical "sideways" video application.</p>

[leslie_cheung]

<p>This is funny, probably one of the funniest Pnet post I've seen ever.<br>

...just tilt your head lol:)))))</p>

[Peter_in_PA]

<p>I don't know. I accidentally shot a video in portrait orientation not too long ago. I just wasn't thinking, since the camera was on a "photo" tripod. A video head doesn't have that adjustment to go sideways. I just plum forgot as I was "thinking photo". I didn't use that video, I was just messing around, but I'm sure this happens quite often.</p>

<p>Again, video packages CAN often rotate these. Give it a try. But you will have to re-render and it will look small on your TV.</p>

[ShunCheung]

<p>I too was going to suggest rotating your TV monitor by 90 degrees, but maybe it is easier to watch the video sideways, lying down on a sofa.</p>

[leslie_cheung]

<p>Honest mistake...that's why it's so funny. I had a non photo friend with a P&S using the pop up flash trying to light up the moon. She wondered and ask me why it didn't work:))))</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>Hey, it happens. People don't know what they don't know, until they figure it out.<br /><br />I did have an acquaintance ask about shooting some tutorial macros showcasing her very meticulous silk embroidery work (tiny, tiny stuff). She did some Googling, but said that all it did was make her more confused. But she did conclude that it sounded like she was going to have to get a pinhole camera. We've straightened that out, now, and she's all set. She hasn't asked about video yet, though!</p>

[ramon_v__california_]

<p>i'd go with tilting your head rather than turning the tv set :-)<br>

have fun.<br>

seriously, yes, that can be fixed like peter said. but next time, take it easy on yourself :-)</p>

[zoid]

<p>Oh my. *snerkle*</p>

<p>Please excuse me as I'm laughing hysterically with you, OP, and not at you. :-)</p>

<p>I could totally see myself making this same mistake. There are some video processing applications that might be able to do this, but you will lose a lot of sharpness as a result. AVI Demux comes to mind as an open-source video editor (and a powerful one too). It's free for Linux and I 'think' they may have a Windows version. Sadly, I don't think it is a super user-friendly piece of software, but if you are pretty good with software I'm sure you can figure it out.</p>

<p>If I can think of any others I'll put them up here, but since I use Linux as my Operating System nowadays, I've kind of lost touch with Windows/Mac stuff. Hope that is of some small help to you.</p>

<p>This thread just made my day.</p>

[st.schwarzer]

<p>Are you on Mac? It's pretty easy to do that, as one can edit the orientation of the file in the file properties. I've done that a while back; would have to look again into it to see how it works exactly. Let me know.</p>

[frank_skomial]

<p>Stefan's idea is great, just disassemble the video into separate frame files, then do the rotations for thousands of video frames, and then re-assembly all frames into one video file, then we are set...<br>

There must be some solution out there, to do it globally on all video frames in one process step?<br>

... though, we may need more help from Stefan since he kind of offerred it:</p>

<p>"I've done that a while back; would have to look again into it to see how it works exactly."</p>

<p> </p>

[frank_skomial]

<p>I never done that, for no reason to do it.<br>

I use infrequently various video editing software, for different ease of use and features. Have not found yet a single video application that would be easy and robust...</p>

<p>The full version of Sony Vegas has tutorial how to rotate video. <br>

I would have to shoot short video in wrong orientation, and try to rotate entire movie, not that I like to do it.<br>

I hope someone already knows how to do it, so I would not pursue this...</p>

[Peter_in_PA]

<p>Type this question into Google and some options come up.</p>

[st.schwarzer]

<p>As I said, it's an easy thing. This is the answer that helped me: "if you have quicktime pro, you can go to movie, get movie properties, then hit the movies dropdown menu, and select the 2nd movies in that drop down menu. after that, in the right hand column, go to size, then you can rotate the movie."</p>

[chris_lindsey]

<p>Try Windows Live Movie Maker, it will let you turn it, convert to a format you can use and save.</p>