Rotate a video file

fat_bottom_girl

Hello all

Can anyone help....i have a couple of videos that have been filmed with my camera vertically...so when i go to watch them the images are sideways. Apart from looking daft every time i watch these by laying my head on the computer desk to see them better, can anyone help explain how to rotate these?

They are AVI clips.

If you do know of a way of doing it....is it simple to do? (I am so-so with compters so need it to be fairly easy)

Any way thanks all for your time and have a good eveing where ever you are

KingL

Don't think so, but if you have a netbook, you can easily flip the display (logically) by 90 degrees either way. I think it's Cntl + Alt + (left cursor) or (right cursor) keys...

bat999

@ fat bottom girl
You can rotate those videos using Windows Movie Maker.
There are some tutorials on YouTube.
This one for example:-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlqqlS8CDv4

fpcat

Taken from Microsoft site (hope it's OK to do that)
How do I rotate video that I have recorded with my digital camera in the Player?

You can rotate video clips in Windows Movie Maker by doing the following:
1.
Import the video clip into Windows Movie Maker.
2.
Drag the imported video clip and drop it onto the timeline.
3.
On the Tools menu, click Video Effects.
4.
To rotate the video clip to the right, drag the Rotate 90 video effect and drop it onto the movie on the timeline.
-or-
To rotate the video clip to the left, drag the Rotate 270 video effect and drop it onto the movie on the timeline.
5.
On the File menu, click Save Movie File and follow the instructions in the Save Movie Wizard.

tronator

fat_bottom_girl wrote: »

Hello all

Can anyone help....i have a couple of videos that have been filmed with my camera vertically...so when i go to watch them the images are sideways. Apart from looking daft every time i watch these by laying my head on the computer desk to see them better, can anyone help explain how to rotate these?

I think VirtualDub can do it.

http://www.virtualdub.org/features.html

You should use a program which doesn't re-encode the video, otherwise the video quality will suffer. I think WMM will convert it to wmv. In Virtualdub you just use "Direct Stream Copy" and the video codec and the quality will stay the same. Not sure whether it works the same way when you rotate the video though...

weegie.geek

You can't rotate without reencoding it.

bat999

weegie.geek wrote: »

You can't rotate without reencoding it.

That's correct.:)
Some programs will allow rotation without re-encoding the audio track.:cool:

fat_bottom_girl

Thank you, you beautiful people! I have done it! Its like a miracle has overcome my computer LOL

I am so chuffed that i can watch them as normal now...no more crooked neck for me!

Thank you all sooooo much! You are great experts!
:T:T:T:T

KingL

Thinking about it, you can spin it round on playback in vlc, too.

Tools > Effects and Filters > Video Effects > Basic > Transform > Rotate by 90/270 degrees