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How do I rotate video?

How do I rotate a video?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on May 13, 2011 10:02 AM

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May 13, 2011 10:12 AM in response to gwenrogers

Editing video in Aperture is pretty much limited to trimming the clip. You can make jpgs from the individual frames and set the poster frame but thats about it. Adjustments are disabled when you have a video (or audio) clip up.


Anything more complicated will need to be done external to Aperture.

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Jul 27, 2011 9:49 PM in response to gwenrogers

I know that you can rotate a video clip using iMovie09 as I was doing it last night on a video I was working on. If I recall correctly:

- select clip you want to rotate in events

- click crop or press c

- then use the circle with an arrow.


The video rotates.


I was just looking at this forum as I was wondering if Quicktime 7 can rotate videos on the fly without having to drag them into iMovie?

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Aug 23, 2011 2:25 AM in response to gwenrogers

I use QT7 since QTX is stripped down from options like this. Do a Cmd-J, select the video track and click on the Visual Settings tab. That tab is available for .mp4 video's, not for .mov video's it seems (at least at my end, YMMV). QT7 is still for sale in the Apple Store $29.99


http://store.apple.com/us/search?find=quicktime+7&mco=Nzc1MjMwNg



Cheers,

Phil Boogie

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May 27, 2012 1:04 PM in response to gwenrogers

Ive searched for apps but Im afraid to spend my money on any of them. Judging by the ratings none of them are good and looking at the post it seems the developers of those apps rate them to make them look better. But you have to look at those ratings you can tell the fake from the real and soo far none of them are good. guess I'll have to check PC products.

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May 27, 2012 1:27 PM in response to Phoenix Mirage

If you only need to rotate in increments of 90°, then Apple's standard QuickTime Player should suffice. Set "QuickTime Player" as External Movie Editor in the Aperture Preferences and select the movie you want to rotate.

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Ctrl-click and select "Edit with QuickTime Player.app".

In QuickTime select: Edit > Rotate


and save your video to a file. Reimport to Aperture.


Regards

Léonie

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Aug 24, 2012 7:51 AM in response to léonie

I have the same question and your suggestion would be brilliant if I could see "rotate" under the Edit menu in QuickTimePlayer but I don't, although my Apple software is up to date - for Snow Leopard, as I cannot update my somewhat early 2006 iMac to Lion. iMovie using the free plugin Turn Clip rotates but destroys the audio. I am about to buy the Pro Version of QuickTime Player 7 and hope that works!

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Aug 24, 2012 11:01 AM in response to Ynys

I am about to buy the Pro Version of QuickTime Player 7 and hope that works!

For me it works, but no guarantees!

In QuickTime 7, use "Window > Show Movie Properties", then select "Visual Settings" and use the "Rotate" buttons like this:

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Cheers

Léonie

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Aug 24, 2012 11:17 AM in response to léonie

leonieDF wrote:



For me it works, but no guarantees!

Hi,


Yes the Pro version works - but I was amazed that although I can open QT7 as the exernal editor in Aperture I still have to export from QT and move the movie about to get it back to where it belongs in my project - completely non-intuitive!


Ynys


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