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I've made my video in Davinci as 1920x1080 and I want to rotate it then export it so nothing is changed or cropped. As I want to then import it into Instagram so people have to turn their phone to view it. If that makes sense?

Every video I've looked up just tells me how to change it to 1080x1920 and export it, but all it's doing is cropping off the sides of my video and putting black bars above and below.

Thank you!

wont that just mean when people turn their phones to view the video - the video will also rotate? so it will still be 90 degrees out? most people have phones set to auto rotate screen.

Here's what Instagram says:

https://help.instagram.com/1038071743007909

michaelstevenharris wrote:I've made my video in Davinci as 1920x1080 and I want to rotate it then export it so nothing is changed or cropped. As I want to then import it into Instagram so people have to turn their phone to view it. If that makes se

There's just a tutorial released about this cancer of a format which is portrait video or how to convert horizontal video to portrait.

Jeff Brass wrote:wont that just mean when people turn their phones to view the video - the video will also rotate? so it will still be 90 degrees out? most people have phones set to auto rotate screen.

Videos on Instagram don't auto-rotate (at least they don't for me!), so you need to have the video in the correct orientation from the start.

Noerde wrote:

michaelstevenharris wrote:I've made my video in Davinci as 1920x1080 and I want to rotate it then export it so nothing is changed or cropped. As I want to then import it into Instagram so people have to turn their phone to view it. If that makes se

There's just a tutorial released about this cancer of a format which is portrait video or how to convert horizontal video to portrait....

Thanks, but I want it so it keeps the original aspect ratio and fills the entire screen and you have to rotate your phone to view it.

I found a random person on Instagram that uploads videos in the way I mean, but annoyingly I can't post a link to it here, but it's @hiro.hashiguchi

I might be missing the point here so apologies if my advice is total nonsense, but I don't do Instagram so have never had any need to do something like this :

Render the video out in 1920x1080
Import this video into the media pool
Set its clip attributes to rotate 90 degrees (whichever way you please)
Create a new timeline of 1080x1920 and add the fully rendered movie to the timeline.
Hopefully it will now show correctly in the timeline they way you want, if not, might need to use the inspector to rotate it again 90 degrees
Render this timeline and upload ?

I'm not sure how familiar you are with Davinci Resolve as I see you've recently joined this forum so what I think should work may be tricky for you.

Anyway, first create a new Project Library giving it a name and location to which to save. Then go to File > Project Settings Custom and e.g. 1920x1080 and ticked Vertical (1080x1920) and Saved. Ensure the Playback Frame Rate is what it needs to be e.g. if you shot it in UK's 25fps. Then drag your file into the timeline in the Edit tab as normal. It will display as cropped because it is in Landscape aspect ratio whereas the Project Settings are in Portrait aspect ratio. Click on the Transform icon and you'll see the boundaries. Bring up Inspector and slide the Rotation Angle so that the file now shows in full at 9:16 You may need to move the boundaries somewhat to ensure the video entirely within those borders. Then edit as normal, colour etc. Then go to the Deliver (render) tab and specify the output. In the Resolution part select custom 1080x1920 and tick Use Vertical Resolution.

When uploading to Instagram one of the options is 9x16 or just use "Original". You probably know that Instagram wants no larger than 1080 on the shortest edge and it recommends a bit rate of no higher than 3500kbps to avoid heavy compression

I'm not that familiar with Instagram having just started with how to use a mix of aspect ratio photos within a carousel. I drag and drop photos with aspect ratios of 4:5 5:4 1:1 2:3 etc onto a background of 1080 x 1350 so I can use up to 10 varied photos per carousel. I use Affinityt Photo for that.

Jason Yadlovski is excellent - I've used his videos a lot - but I don't think the video "how to" linked above is quite what the OP is looking for. If I do want the same sort of look as that, having created the vertical Project, I simply create a suitable JPEG backdrop in e.g. Affinity Photo, drag it into the first video track of the timeline and put the video file onto the next track above etc.

Dave Shortman wrote:I might be missing the point here so apologies if my advice is total nonsense, but I don't do Instagram so have never had any need to do something like this :

Render the video out in 1920x1080
Import this video into the media pool
Set its clip attributes to rotate 90 degrees (whichever way you please)
Create a new timeline of 1080x1920 and add the fully rendered movie to the timeline.
Hopefully it will now show correctly in the timeline they way you want, if not, might need to use the inspector to rotate it again 90 degrees
Render this timeline and upload ?

Thanks for this, it sounds like the thing I'm trying to achieve, so will give it a go! Cheers

Ashton Lamont wrote:I'm not sure how familiar you are with Davinci Resolve as I see you've recently joined this forum so what I think should work may be tricky for you.

Anyway, first create a new Project Library giving it a name and location to which to save. Then go to File > Project Settings Custom and e.g. 1920x1080 and ticked Vertical (1080x1920) and Saved. Ensure the Playback Frame Rate is what it needs to be e.g. if you shot it in UK's 25fps. Then drag your file into the timeline in the Edit tab as normal. It will display as cropped because it is in Landscape aspect ratio whereas the Project Settings are in Portrait aspect ratio. Click on the Transform icon and you'll see the boundaries. Bring up Inspector and slide the Rotation Angle so that the file now shows in full at 9:16 You may need to move the boundaries somewhat to ensure the video entirely within those borders. Then edit as normal, colour etc. Then go to the Deliver (render) tab and specify the output. In the Resolution part select custom 1080x1920 and tick Use Vertical Resolution.

When uploading to Instagram one of the options is 9x16 or just use "Original". You probably know that Instagram wants no larger than 1080 on the shortest edge and it recommends a bit rate of no higher than 3500kbps to avoid heavy compression

I'm not that familiar with Instagram having just started with how to use a mix of aspect ratio photos within a carousel. I drag and drop photos with aspect ratios of 4:5 5:4 1:1 2:3 etc onto a background of 1080 x 1350 so I can use up to 10 varied photos per carousel. I use Affinityt Photo for that.

Jason Yadlovski is excellent - I've used his videos a lot - but I don't think the video "how to" linked above is quite what the OP is looking for. If I do want the same sort of look as that, having created the vertical Project, I simply create a suitable JPEG backdrop in e.g. Affinity Photo, drag it into the first video track of the timeline and put the video file onto the next track above etc.

You're right, I'm not very familiar with Davinci (or any video editing software - photography is primarily my thing), but your instructions look pretty clear to me. Thanks a lot for writing that out and for the tips! Appreciate it!!

Dave Shortman wrote:I might be missing the point here so apologies if my advice is total nonsense, but I don't do Instagram so have never had any need to do something like this :

Render the video out in 1920x1080
Import this video into the media pool
Set its clip attributes to rotate 90 degrees (whichever way you please)
Create a new timeline of 1080x1920 and add the fully rendered movie to the timeline.
Hopefully it will now show correctly in the timeline they way you want, if not, might need to use the inspector to rotate it again 90 degrees
Render this timeline and upload ?

Thanks a lot man. This worked. I was also able to create a tutorial video for others using this tip.