Magix Movie Edit Pro Rotate Video
Florene Franca
Video images taken with a camera are rectangular, meaning that they're wider than they are tall. As a result, sometimes you need to tilt your camera when recording a video of an object such as a tower, or the full body length of a person standing up, because more of the subject can be captured when the image is rotated. This create a video in portrait.
In cases like these, it's necessary to flip or rotate the video after the fact so that it displays properly for viewers. For vertical video subjects that appear on their side, you can rotate video 90 degrees, and for recordings that are upside down, you'll need to flip the video 180 degrees.
Tip: Black bars can appear left and right on vertical videos. You can easily remove these by adding one of the backgrounds available under Media Pool > Templates > Image objects > Background photos.
You can also transfer your rotated video directly to a connected smartphone, upload to a web platform like YouTube or burn to disc. Movie Studio automatically selects the necessary format settings here, so you don't have to do anything else.
To round things off, here's a tip for creative effects editing that can also be applied to normal videos in landscape format. The rotating video effect described above can also be used to turn a video dynamically on its own axis or image center. These kinds of flipping effects might be familiar to you as a transition effect in slideshows or old films when a newspaper with the headline "Breaking News" comes flying up to the screen in rotation.
I have put together a slide show with some images that need rotating. I have rotated them, by selecting rotation/mirror on the view/animation tab and rotated the handle or used the rotate button on the tab. Later when I am reviewing the project some have returned to their original view, i.e., not rotated. Is there some way to lock in the rotation. I am using Movie Studio 18 Platinum version 18.1.0.24. This is in Windows 10 always updated.
Actually, most were from a variety of dedicated still digital cameras. I followed your advice and the images rotated nicely. Saved the project. Came back to it a few days later and they were all rotated back to where they were. The rotation modification does not seem to hold. It is only a problem with images that were originally rotated, e.g., the camera was held vertically rather than horizontally when the picture was taken.
I am also getting unwanted clip rotation from clips from a Panasonic camcorder (mts format). Some are 90 degrees and others 180 degrees. Video clips and photos from mobile phones are OK. This happens without warning and not all the clips suffer. Very random in nature. I noticed that in the object properties for the 90 degree rotation the format becomes 9:16 instead of 16:9. Change to 16:9 doesn't change the orientation, just makes it distort larger. When attempting to change it back to 9:16, the value is not present on the drop down menu. This is very annoying and is deterring me from upgrading. The version of my Magix Movie Edit Pro is 20.0.1.80 (UDP3). Has this bug been fixed in newer versions? Is it a Windows problem? (Running Windows 10 64 bit, fully updated with 16 Gb RAM, AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor 4.00 GHz, AMD Radeon HD 6670 Graphics Card.
An aspect ratio is always width by height. That can be set manually when creating a new project along with the correct frame rate and audio sample rate. A file from a camera or phone should have a header telling the file which orientation the camera was in during recording but can on some cameras and phones be corrupted by turning the camera in the 'wrong' direction effectively turning the camera or phone upside down. Some cameras can't cope with that and won't add the data to the header file. So it is not a bug within the editor as far as I'm aware and the correct way of turning the image if needed (If you set the project to a landscape setting rather than a portrait one or it appears upside-down) which will then effectively shrink the image to fit the height of the landscape setting, is to use the rotation tool.
1 x 250GB Evo 970 NVMe: drive for C: drive backup 1 x 1TB Sabrent NVMe drive for Operating System / Programs only. 1X WD BLACK 1TB internal SATA 7,200rpm hard drives.1 for internal projects, 1 for Library clips/sounds/music/stills./backup of working projects. 1x500GB SSD current project only drive, 2x WD RED 2TB drives for latest footage storage. Total 21TB of 8 external WD drives for backup.
Thank you CubeAce for your advice. The problem I am having is that when placing a clip on the timeline the orientation initially is correct. It can remain correct during the process of further adding clips to develop the project. I save the project and when rebooting the next day the orientation has changed by 90 or 180 degrees on random clips. If I close and reboot some of the clips have corrected themselves, not all of them.
My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.
Download and install MediaInfo and analyse one of the clips, that is exhibiting the issue, and post the results, see this tutorial if you are not familiar with MediaInfo on how to setup MediaInfo and analyse a video clip.
I know on occasion while shooting with my DSRL that I sometimes twist my hands one way and then sometimes the other way. but fortunately this does not confuse my camera body. This is more easily done without thinking when using a view screen rather than a view finder. Phones are far easier to get to shoot upside-down rather than the correct way up. Personally as I watch most content on a computer monitor or TV I have always shot landscape rather than portrait for video as I also prefer a larger screen and better audio quality. But then I'm older and have not really been brought up as much using smart phones and tablets or into Ticktock.
I have had cameras that if you set the camera to show portrait in the cameras screen as an image in landscape so as not to have to keep twisting the camera back and forth for viewing, that the header of the file is also changed and will not show correctly either in Windows or a video editor or can sometimes show correctly in one but not the other.
I have noticed that if adding an affected clip in the same project, the orientation is incorrect again. If adding the same clip in a new project, the orientation is correct. How long it remains OK is unknown.
Further investigation I installed a trial version of Video Pro X 14 and used the project file as used by Magix Movie Edit Pro with the orientation problem. The orientation was correct in Video Pro X 14. Does this point to a bug in Movie Edit Pro?
I installed a new Windows 10 OS on a clean hard disk and then installed Magix Movie Edit Pro 20.0.1.80. Used the saved project file that was giving me the problems and the orientation remained correct throughout the completion of the project and I successfully created 5 movies within this project. This was over a period of about 1 week.
I have had a similar problem in the past which was caused by the camera. My cameras have a setting that enables a portrait image to be shown in the landscape orientation of the view-screen for playback, avoiding the need to keep rotating the screen on the camera back and forth when reviewing images.
The drawback is in some editing programs that file header becomes the dominant instruction and will not show the file in it's correct orientation for playback. I don't know if this could be a cause for your problem of not.
My problem was with the clips from my camcorder which was always shot in landscape. Some clips had the problem, not all. Some were 90 degrees, others were 180 degrees. The clips that didn't have the problem were from mobile phones. Very odd and fustrating. Sometimes the affected clips would rectify itself.
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