I have a video that was shot on a phone that needs to be rotated 90 degrees.

The problem is that I need to also scale the video after rotating so that it will fit on a horizontal screen (because the top and bottom parts of the video are cropped).

The rotate & shear effect lets me rotate it just fine, however, the scaling, alignment, fit to height, etc.. buttons are greyed out and will not let me adjust them.

Any ideas how to fix this?

I am basically just dropping the clip onto the timeline, and then applying the effect.

Thank you.

In kdenlive 15.08 the Rotate and Shear effect works properly on a title clip. It can be rotated by 90 degrees and zoomed to 180% in size. Maybe you can work around by applying the Pan, Scan, Zoom effect additionally to the rotate and shear.

capslock wrote:In kdenlive 15.08 the Rotate and Shear effect works properly on a title clip. It can be rotated by 90 degrees and zoomed to 180% in size. Maybe you can work around by applying the Pan, Scan, Zoom effect additionally to the rotate and shear.

Thanks for the reply. I'm confused, though about you referring to "Kdenlive 15.08." I just checked and if I go to the "About Kdenlive" dialog box, it says:

Kdenlive Version 0.9.10
Using KDE Development Platform 4.13.3

I update whenever the repositories get updated, so I doubt I'm running a version that's that out of date.

robroy wrote:Kdenlive Version 0.9.10
Using KDE Development Platform 4.13.3
I update whenever the repositories get updated, so I doubt I'm running a version that's that out of date.

The update cycle actually was 0.9.10 (for KDE 4.x), next 15.04 (Year/Month) for KF5, and then 15.08, also for KF5.

I accidentally got the effect to work by following the post that I found here: viewtopic.php?f=270&t=118641&p=297606&hilit=rotate+%26+shear#p297606

For some reason, I was able to use the Rotate and Shear Effect and position the resized and rotated video. As soon as I clicked on the timeline though, and selected the clip the parts mentioned in my OP were greyed out again.

So apparently, as long as you can get it resized and positioned properly at first, then you can do the rest of the editing. Even though some options of the effect are now greyed out.

What about using the affine transition to rotate and move one clip before composing it with the second?

To be able to edit the scale values, you need to be right at the start of the clip being adjusted.