Saturday, November 15, 2008
Rotating Video
Rotate video clips from digital cameras using Streamclip, Quicktime Pro and Turn Clip in iMovie
If you are shooting video with a little digital camera like the Flip Video, it is real easy to rotate the camera ninety degrees when your are taking pictures. The problem comes later when you are editing and your video is sideways. What do you do?
If you just need to rotate the raw footage (.mpeg or .avi), then you can download the MPEG Streamclip utility. It is free! It allows you to rotate your footage. It even has the ability to restore sound to mpegs that don’t seem to have any audio when you play them on your mac. Did I mention it was free? Works in OSX and Windows.
Quicktime PRO can also rotate .dv footage.
If you are editing in iMovie, you can use the Turn Clip plug-in to rotate your footage. It is free.