Adobe premiere cs6 / rotate a video 90° without distorting it

What Selimage is asking for is feasible (if I understood his request correctly): the goal is to rotate the video while simultaneously changing its format. The source video is 1920 pixels wide and 1080 pixels high, the rotated video should be 1080 pixels wide and 1920 pixels high.

Here is the step-by-step process that may be useful to others:
— Right-click on the sequence -> Sequence Settings.
— Note the parameters indicated. In my case, I have this:

— Click OK, then File -> New -> Sequence -> Settings tab.
— In "Timebase", choose "Custom".
— Re-enter the previously noted timebase (29.97 frames per second for me) as well as the pixel aspect ratio (square pixels for me), the frame rate setting (no pulldown for me) and the display format (uncompensated timecode 30 fps for me).
— For image size, enter the previously noted values by switching them (I had 1080 pixels horizontally for 1920 pixels vertically, so I enter 1920 pixels horizontally and 1080 pixels vertically).
— If all goes well, the ratio that appears should be 9:16 instead of the 16:9 of the source video:

— Click OK.
— Return to the timeline on the source sequence -> Right-click on the video -> Copy.
— Switch to the new sequence (through the tabs or by double-clicking in the bin) -> Edit -> Paste (or Ctrl+V).
— Click on the newly pasted video in the timeline.
— Effect Controls -> Motion -> Rotation -> Enter 90° (for "rotate right") or 270° (for "rotate left") -> Enter.

This way, you obtain a new sequence, where width and height have been swapped, and where the video has been "rotated" without distortion, black bars, or loss of quality.

No mathematical problem or moral lesson needed for "the youth" in all of this, thank you! :)

Hello

It is impossible to distort the size of an image without deformation.
Either you adjust the size with distortion, or there are bands or loss of a part of the image.
It's mathematical.

Regards.

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Hello, I smile when I see this confidence, this certainty that youth has in the power of software that should be able to do everything for us with just a few clicks
but as "Mad'" says, there are the mathematics and the rules are immutable
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Bravo mti131, very nice demonstration. You showed how with Premiere Pro one can customize a resolution, change the ratio (16/9 > 9/16) to eliminate the black bars. Saying that this operation can be done without distorting the image is like saying that 16/9 = 9/16. Bravo. You truly deserve the Nobel Prize in Mathematics (you would be the first).
Oh, a small detail, continuing your reasoning, the export must also be customized by adopting the settings you made: 1080*1920 ratio 9/16, meaning that when playing on a standard player or 16/9 TV screen (which cannot change resolution), the black bars that you had removed will reappear.
All in all, there is another simpler and more effective solution with the certainty of not distorting the image (no change in ratio) and not having black bars, it's simply to rotate the video 90°. Well, alright, for viewing you have to tilt your head 90° or flip the screen to a vertical position.
There is indeed another solution, but that one, if we want neither to distort nor to crop the image while staying with the 16/9 ratio, will preserve black bars...

I grant you 10 additional points according to your criteria (+, -, it's the same).

to glandu: There is the old school 1+1=2 and the modern math, Nobel Prize style.