Filed under: Video, How-tos, Tips and tricks
Rotate video with nothing more than QT Pro
So I shot some video with my Canon SD300 today, but I used the camera vertically, not horizontally. Once I imported the video into iPhoto, I wanted to share it - but I couldn't figure out how on earth I could rotate the video to a proper orientation for viewing.Until I opened the "Show Movie Properties" option in QuickTime Pro. In that window is a list of tracks included in the file. Clicking on the Video track, then the Visual Settings tab will reveal a nice set of scaling and rotating options, amongst others. This takes a huge monkey off my back, as I've been looking for a fix to this issue for months and opening Final Cut Pro to do the same thing seemed like overkill. Just export or save the movie to create a shiny new, properly oriented version of your movie. Enjoy!
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sean Michael Carter said 9:46PM on 11-04-2005
that's all fine and dandy, but I've already learned the hard way that Quicktime is a ripoff. I bought the pro version. Then within a month, they updated it. What happened? I lost my money, that's what happened. So, does anyone know of a way of doing said trick with something that is more along the lines of free? I don't need to do this too often, but I do have video that needs to be rotated. Thanks.
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Mathew said 10:16PM on 11-04-2005
holy crap... I've been wondering how to do this with my sd300 for ages too... !
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Conrad Quilty-Harper said 4:12AM on 11-05-2005
Duuude! I'd been searching for a solution to this problem for ages until now! Thanks!
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Kasei said 2:11PM on 11-05-2005
I almost went crazy trying to find a way to do this. In the end I had to leave a video out of a presenatation.
Thanks. I will definitely use this in the future.
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One Stop Under said 5:27AM on 11-14-2005
Wow, thanks so much for this tip! I had several precious but unusable family videos that have now been rescued.
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