1080 X 1920 Vertical Video

[Bartie Spalitto]

My goal: I want to be able to edit short movies for Instagram Stories and Facebook stories. These videos however are NOT in the typical 1920 x 1080 resolution, as that is a HORIZONTAL format not VERTICAL.

What I have discovered worked for me a couple minutes ago was setting the properties resolution to vertical i.e 720 x 1080 and then using the upload to youtube option, which promptly failed, but did allow me to save the file generated (to be uploaded (in the correct non-forced format)) which then was able to be manually uploaded to youtube successfully as a short with no issue, this was on movie studio platinum 16

I shoot at 1080x1920 (vertical) most of the times for social media contents. However, when I download the videos, they all appear in horizontal on my PC. Is there anyway I can change the orientation in the camera? or maintain the portrait video format and not have to manually rotate the clips in Premier Pro?

I setup my camera Vertically to shoot videos for Instagram reel or YouTube shorts. When I export the videos to my desktop, the videos are saved in 1920 (w) X 1080 (h). I want it in 1920 (h) X 1080 (w). This will make it easier for me to play back the videos on my PC as shot and then import it to Premiere Pro.

To change that setting put the camera into P, Tv, Av, or M video mode and press the Menu button. Go to the first page under the yellow wrench tab and there will be an option Add Rotate Info and it will have the icon of a video camera. Select that and Enable it. Once you do that the camera will record information in the file to help video players automatically play it back as a vertical video.

If you want to reference the manual for that information it is on page 723. If you need a copy of the manual it is available HERE. Once you are on the web page click on the gray Manuals button and the one to reference is named . If you do not see the menu option on your camera you may need to update the firmware.

I have it enabled. The videos play back fine on the camera. I setup my camera Vertically to shoot videos for Instagram reel or YouTube shorts. When I export the videos to my desktop, the videos are saved in 1920 (w) X 1080 (h). I want it in 1920 (h) X 1080 (w). This will make it easier for me to play back the videos on my PC as shot and then import it to Premiere Pro.

Unfortunately there isn't a way to set the resolution to 1920 (h) x 1080 (w) on this camera. The only option is the auto rotate option. If your video editing software is able to read the auto rotate setting in the video it will automatically rotate it vertically. If that software isn't able to read that setting you will still need to manually rotate the video.

I found some posts explaining how to turn any video horizontal by adding blurred borders using FFMpeg, but I want to convert videos to vertical 1080x1920. I don't want it to enlarge the video, nor crop if a dimension is bigger than either 1080 or 1920 dimension. Instead, I want it to shrink the video until it fits fully inside 1080x1920, and then I want it to add blurred borders to the empty areas.

Hey everyone! I'm ripping my hair out trying to edit a simply social media edit. It was filmed vertically at 4k 30fps and even at 1/8 playback quality my computer is struggling. I tried creaating a proxy but it was stretched. So I created an ingest preset "ProRes Proxy 720x1280p". I imported the ingest preset to premiere and ran them through the media encoder and the exact same thing is happening. The image is stretched. Ill attatch a screenshot of the stretched video preview and one of the settings right before I saved it as a preset.

Go to Media Enconder, go to Create New Encoding Present, and create a new preset based on the codec you use normally (like Apple ProRes 422 Proxy), leave everything as is but untick the height and width checkmark and insert 1080x1920 (vertical video) and click OK. You have created the encoding preset. Now you need to create the ingest preset.

What are the sequence settings? Click in the timeline panel so it's got that thin blue "focus" line around it, then go to the main menu system, Sequence, and check the sequence framesize settings. Change if needed.

Transcode the 4k 30fps 2160-by-3840 source to ProRes422 LT, maintaining the frame size and frame rate in Adobe Media Encoder. If using macOS you can right-click the clips in the Finder and choose Encode Selected Video, but the results will be ProRes422 not ProRes422 LT. Yes, the files will be very large, but that's why they're good for editing with the Premiere Pro Proxy Workflow.

I think what causes the problem is that the proxies preset uses 1920x1080 default size and the match frame 'tick' also doesn't work when transcoding. This solution will transcode using basically the same codec but with vertical video dimensions.

Im having this same issue, however regardless of the changing the pixel dimensions. If I look at the proxy file, it looks perfect, the properties are correct. Same for the original. They should interchange perfectly, but premiere seems to be making an assumption and trying to correct for it. hmm

The proxy the Media Encoder creates look properly if I play it in the finder, and it looks right if I bring it into premiere by itself. Turns out if I take the raw footage and transcode it to a new "original Camera Negative" as ProRes 422 HQ than proxy works fine. I think it has somethign to do with the source which is s1h HEVC 10 bit 422 3840 2160. Thank you for responding!

Hi, can you give more details about the workaround you used? I'm also in the same situation where my proxy plays with the right format in the finder, and appears with the right format in premire pro, but as soon as I try to play it in premire pro, it gets stretched again... What is it exactly that you mean with this sentence here :right_arrow:"Turns out if I take the raw footage and transcode it to a new "original Camera Negative" as ProRes 422 HQ than proxy works fine. "

Yes, it's not the easiest thing to do. You have to create that endoding preset, save it ... then make that ingest preset ... export THAT, saving it to the right spot on the computer so PrPro knows it's there ... and available for proxy work.

So typical of Adobe incompetence ... complicate something that should be so easy. You'd think Adobe never heard of vertical video. So they sell you an application that is completely stumped by vertical video. There should be a simple adjustment "switch" right in Premiere "Pro" that flips a horizontal preset to vertical. Or, here's a radical idea: Premiere should come with existing vertical format proxy presets. For all their brilliance in creating apps with incredible capabilities, it still amazes me how they can overlook the needs of their customers to this extent. Hey Adobe, intuitive function ... it really is a thing.

Vertical proxies exist via the "Match Source" option of the ingest preset. Perhaps more importantly, vertical proxies work best when the full resolution source is an intermediate format (so, something like ProRes vertical full resolution source with ProRes vertical proxies).

The devs are typically so used to using the tools, that I think they would tend to see this as ... the app already has all the tools needed for a user to spend what, ten minutes, to set up probably several presets if they need them.

If you could get that information ... please!!!! ... post it in a new thread on this forum, using the "Bug" option for type of discussion. That is now how we flag things for the devs to catch bugs/problems.

Hi all, we made a video tutorial to walk you through the process of making a custom proxy preset for vertical video! This is a two-step process, but after you've done it, your vertical videos should not appear stretched again.

Caroline, thanks for this! Just so we (I) don't feel gaslit, this is exactly what I had been doing with the exception of creating the preset/export in media encoder, not inside the export panel of Premiere. So, either creating the export/preset inside of premiere is somehow different than creating it inside of media encoder (yes I created the ingest preset in media encoder of course) or something has changed in the way premiere looks at vertical video with regards to proxy generation. Because this video isn't technically a solve, this video just shows the standard way to make proxy presets that aren't already available (although by using the export panel rather than creating the export preset in media encoder). All that being said, as long as it works I doesn't really matter why it didn't work in the past, or how I feel about it, haha.

Also, question: why must making presets involve a two step process (as it has been for a while). It must be for a use case that I'm not totally aware of. It's a pain in the butt for a reason I can't comprehend. Not that that matters, once you wrap your ahead aroudn the fact you have to do create 2 presets.... to make 1 that works. Regardless, thank you for the video!

Wonderful video.. except for the search for the injest proxy you made part at the end...i'm on a PC.. and i am so agitated right now over the search part since it doesnt work for the PC like it does on the MAC. Where do the saved proxy files get saved? this needs to seriously be corrected so this workaround isnt needed.. vertical video is here to stay. i'm at a 9 out of ten frustration level right now over this.

@caroline_edits it's good that you made a tutorial on how to make your own custom proxy preset, but in this case making our own shouldn't be necessary. This should just work how we expect it to right out of the box. If premiere automatically detects that my footage is vertical, then when i tell it to make proxies of that footage it's insane that the proxies come out vertically stretched to all hell and back in a horizontal format with huge black bars on either side.

Fix your programs, don't make us do these work-arounds for something that your programs should just do in the first place.

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