Macbook as video monitor for iPhone camera won't rotate to portrait

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Macbook as video monitor for iPhone camera won't rotate to portrait

I use QuickTime to record video for tiktok and instagram. I definitely need vertical portrait orientation. I see that in 2021 people reported that they can't switch to landscape...

To make it more clear let's rephrase it. I can't record myself in the angles of 0, 45, 90, 180, 270 degrees because QuickTime always do 2 things:

QuickTime tries to match video frame and AR to the AR of the screen.So I am wondering can I just attach vertical screen to get the expected aspect ration??
QuickTime uses some gravity related feature and compensates the orientation angle of the recording. So I am wondering, do I need to invent the time machine and go to future to bring some gravity modifier for my house so that I could make iPhone record my body in the angle of 45 degrees or just use ropes to tie my body and fix it in 45 regree orientation relatively to the earth?

iPhone 12, iOS 17

Posted on Aug 5, 2024 10:36 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 6, 2024 3:14 AM in response to loan299

Try different software instead.

E.g. OBS Studio. It has a Mac app and an iOS app, that work together.

That is not a random namedrop; many streamers use it.

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Aug 10, 2024 2:07 AM in response to Urquhart1244

Thanks for reply! Great software indeed I used that on Linux and Windows. But Windows is just an Xbox for people who pretend to be serious hard-working men and if Linux then tou know what you sign up for... But this is great Apple world! Why not to have whatever Apple wants in the first place and some checkbox that offers extended set of some potentially buggy features in QuickTime like orientation, cropping, AR configuration, disable gravity correction etc.?

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