202 - Dirty File Conversion Trick

202 - Dirty File Conversion Trick

I've uploaded another animation today. Again, I recored the old Flash swf file using Quicktime.

Then I realised it would make a good short as it is only 8 seconds long. But how to get the file vertical? 

I have Adobe Premiere Pro but as is often the case it over complicated things and picked up the very, very many layers and elements from the original Flash file. Goodness knows why those were in a screen recording.

So I racked my brains and came up with a simple solution that worked. So easy. I just adjusted the display settings to rotate 270 degrees, selected 'full screen view' and I recorded a vertical movie at the correct ratio for a YouTube short.

Here is a video about that process:

 

And here is the vertical short movie:

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