Slideshow and orientation of photos

Question

I am about to create a DVD with a slideshow of some of my pictures. I am using PSE and PRE both in version 8. Most is working fine except that some (not all) of my photos taken i portrait view are rotated 90 degrees to much. I myself are really not doing anything with this, just using the auto-rotate functionality in my two camera's when the picture is taken (let the pictures be tagged). All pictures are shown fine in the organiser, all ar shown fine when they are displayed as a slideshow on screen on my PC - BUT if I am trying to create a videosequence out of them (by using the create-functionality), some of the autorotated portrait pictures are rotated once again, but not all! (Probably due to two different cameras)
Have found one clue for earlier version: Rotate to and from once - to no avail
Any other tip out there?
Have tried to create a slideshow/videosequence directrly in PRE8, then I get a different problem as the pictures are not scaled down to the screen size...

Answer 1

Multiple people have reported problems with Portriat Mode photos which have an Orientation Indicator when using the PSE to PRE workflow for slideshows with version 8.  Here are some comments and suggestions based on previous experiences that I have seen in forums and emails.
Have found one clue for earlier version: Rotate to and from once - to no avail
Any other tip out there?
1- APPROACH 1 -- The rotate approach has worked for other people when
-- that rotate (to and from)is done in the Organzer thumbnail area BEFORE the photo is placed in the Slide Show Editor (of PSE) and
-- when the Organizer Preference of "Rotate JPEGs using Orientation Metadata" is NOT checked
When using this approach you can multiple select the thumbnails of the photos to be rotated.
2 - there may be other possibilies of the timing for doing the rotate that will work.
What I suggest is that you post when you did the rotate and whether it was done in the Photoshop Elements Editor, Premiere Elements or Organizer workspace.
3- FYI - You say that you are unsure why some portrait photos have this problem and other photos do not. If both cameras were set for using an Orientation indicator, then a possible explanation is that SOME of your photos had been edited by the Photoshop Elements editor and others had not. The photos processed by the Photoshop Elements editor are likely to look OK in Priemere Elements. (note: not sure if this is 100% but I am not aware of specific types of exceptions).
3 - APPROACH 2 -- for the slide show that you have already built, you can try the approach of initiating an Edit in Photoshop Elements for the individual photos which have this problem.
For individual problematic photo from within either the Slide Show Editor or from within Premere Elements, select that photo and choose the option to edit within the Photoshop Elements editor, adjust as desired and save. 
Note that after your slideshow has been transferred and is in Premiere Elements (timeline and scencline), changes must be made using Premiere Elements.  (you can't bring individual changes over from the slide show editor that you used from Photoshop Elements in to Premiere Elements).