I’m liking this software, it seems very capable but I am having trouble rotating a landscape orientation vid in to portrait orientation and then cropping it to lose the large surrounding frame and just end up with the video in portrait without a large landscape frame around it.
I have started by adding a custom video mode including the portrait aspect ratio required (based on the size of the camera’s sensor I’m using).
I then open the landscape video, rotate and scale it to lose any black edges. It looks great in Shotcut (portrait orientation with no frame around it) but when I export it the video appears back to landscape orientation and is completely squashed with a big black frame top and bottom.
I’m new to this, could anyone help with what I doing wrong here please ?
Thanks for this. This is exactly what I thought I did tbh.
I set the video mode to a portrait orientation in the aspect ratio, which is what I wanted to export the video as. So for example instead of 6x4 in the aspect ratio boxes I entered 4x6.
It all looked good with editing until I exported and then the final MP4 was still in landscape and badly distorted.
Anyway, I have turned it all off, turned on again and reset everything. I’ve set up a custom video mode and used my camera’s sensor dimensions again. This time it has worked and I have exported a portrait oriented video ! Not sure why it wouldn’t work before but I’m guessing it was probably pilot error somewhere.
