It looks great in Shotcut but after export it's at 90°!

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I have recorded a video, as always, on an iphone. It creates a MOV file which I then transfer to the PC (Windows). I check the MOV file using VLC and it’s correct, 1080*1920, portrait:

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I then drop the file into Shotcut’s playlist, it shows up in the correct orientation, i.e. portrait:

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Now here is where it goes all strange. Whether I drag the file direct from an Explorer window or if I drag the file from the Shotcut Playlist and drop it into the timeline, it now it displays in landscape:

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So I think to myself, OK, I can fix this with the Size, Position & Rotate filter, so I rotate it and zoom it so it fills the 1080*1920 window:

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Then I preview the final video in Shotcut and it plays perfectly in 1080*1920 portrait and I export it to MP4 but, when I watch it in VLC or any other video player, everything in the file is as displayed in Shotcut EXCEPT the imported video file which ends up rotated, even though in Shotcut it’s the correct orientation!

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I have three different MOV files in this one video and all three do the same thing. Now somebody MUST have experienced this before. PLEASE tell me what setting I need to change to correct this because it’s really onerous to have to guess the orientation and zoom factor to correct this because the Preview window does NOT show what the final export will be. You therefore have to jiggery-poke the Size, Position & Rotate filter settings to end up with an Export that looks as you want it to.

Please help!

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Inside the Properties tab, have you tried to change Rotation to 0, instead of using Size, Position & Rotate?

What does this tab show for you within Shotcut?

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Thanks for your reply. This is what I have for that video:

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if you can post the video here to team test it

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Thank you so much for pointing me in this direction. I removed the S,P&R filter from all of the MOV video clips in the timeline and instead set their Properties > Rotation to 90° and this fixed both issues:

  • the video clips displayed in Portrait orientation in the Preview window
  • the final video was exported with all the clips being Portrait

This obviously doesn’t answer the question “Why is this happening” but it does solve my problem both for today and for the next time it happens.

Many thanks!

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I see you were using proxy, this is just a guess but maybe the proxy video was created in a different rotation compared to the original so it looked ok with them in the timeline but the original video was rotated and you only see the original video in the export.

If you still have the original project with the wrong orientation you could test it by temporarily disabling proxy.

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The problem occurs in proxy mode if a proxy does not exist yet.

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