Video rotation

[cmkultradome]

My son took some video this weekend using my point and shoot. He took some of the clips in portrait orientation and when I upload those, they are converted to horizontal orientation so you have to turn your head to look at them. Is there anyway in smugmug that I can rotate the videos like I rotate my photos sometimes. It wasn't listed as an option when the video was displayed and when I tried the multiple photo option to rotate, none of the videos displayed. I tried to rotate them before uploading but I couldn't find a way to do it without upgrading to Quick Time Pro. Are there any free programs I could use if I can't perform this function on my smugmug site. Thanks

Stephanie

[ziggy53]

What computer type and OS?

[cmkultradome]

What computer type and OS?

I'm using a Windows based PC. The point and shoot camera is a Kodak and when I downloaded the videos off the memory card it puts them in Quick Time format (at least that is how my computer chooses to play them). The file extensions are ".mov". I don't have any video editting software on my computer other than Windows Media Center which isn't recognizing the files.

Stephanie

[ziggy53]

Maybe try "Free Video Flip and Rotate":

http://download.cnet.com/Free-Video-Flip-and-Rotate/3000-2194_4-10763530.html

I haven't tried it personally but it's free and it's designed for your application. The description does not define acceptable input file types so you may have to convert the file before you can rotate it.

VirtualDub is another freeware, and one that I use, that can do rotation. It too may require conversion first.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

The video file format converters I have used are:

Super, this worked for me on XP but not on Windows 7.

http://download.cnet.com/Super-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-10277613.html?tag=mncol

MPEG Streamclip, this worked on both XP and Windows 7

http://download.cnet.com/MPEG-Streamclip/3000-2194_4-10496369.html?tag=mncol

Video Converter WinFF, this works for me on Win 7, but I did not try it on XP:

http://winff.org/html_new/

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If the video was recorded in 16:9 format I would probably not bother because unless you can crop it to a 4:3 format it will look pretty sad rotated.

At any rate if you have to convert first, try to use a format which keeps a pretty large sample rate, which will result in a large file size. The best would be a relatively loss-less format like Lagarith or Huffyuv. These will produce extremely large file sizes compared to the original file, but they should retain a lot of the original video quality. Don't try to play one of these lossless video files because it will probably stutter a lot during playback, even on a very fast machine. You may have to Google for these codecs and download separately and install before trying to run the converter software.

[cmkultradome]

Maybe try "Free Video Flip and Rotate":

http://download.cnet.com/Free-Video-Flip-and-Rotate/3000-2194_4-10763530.html

I haven't tried it personally but it's free and it's designed for your application. The description does not define acceptable input file types so you may have to convert the file before you can rotate it.

VirtualDub is another freeware, and one that I use, that can do rotation. It too may require conversion first.

http://www.virtualdub.org/


Thanks Ziggy - I tried the first link you mentioned and the rotation worked but for some reason it made the video run at warp speed and I couldn't slow it down. I then tried the second link (virtualdub). This worked fine although I didn't want to purchase it so I have the virtual dub logo running thru the middle of the video clips. It's fine for these videos since the quality of the videos isn't very good anyway and the Boy Scouts just want to see themselves on the High Ropes course during an Adventure weekend. Thanks again for your help. In the future I'll make sure we just video in horizontal format.


Stephanie