Working in vertical aspect ratio
by Jeremy Mullen
on
Aug 4, 2008 at 1:00:49 am
Here's an open problem, with an invite to any and all with hints, suggestions, or cleverness of any kind:
I am working a lot with video shot for a vertical aspect ratio, usually a standing figure, which is displayed on a perpendicularly installed LCD. Since the camera is rotated 90 degrees when shooting, and the screen is rotated 90 degrees for viewing, I don't need to worry about rotating the footage. The problem is that it is (very) irritating to work with sideways footage - particularly as there is a lot of text to punch in. I could turn my whole 2nd monitor on its side, but then if I want to have the timeline or anything else on it, it is unusable. I don't currently have a separate (3rd) external monitor, either - just a dual-screen computer setup, which is plenty most of the time.
I would LOVE it if there was a way in Final Cut to rotate just the view of the windows. Otherwise I rotate all the footage to work with it and then rotate it back. But what if I could just tell FCP that I wanted to work at a 90 degree angle? My dream is that there is someone out there more clever than me with scripting who could figure out how to make this possible. I put it to you. What do you say?
Re: Working in vertical aspect ratio by Jeremy Mullen on Aug 4, 2008 at 3:06:15 pm
Thanks - I get that, how to actually rotate the footage. What I would like to be able to do is rotate the WINDOW. The footage doesn't need to be changed - my output is supposed to be sideways, so that the screen can be rotated to right the figures in the image. Think of an LCD turned vertically in an exhibition venue - to see a person standing upright in such a scenario, the video needs to be prepared sideways. It's just a pain to work on sideways stuff. Does this make sense?
