How to rotate a *.MOV video by 90 degrees ?

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How to rotate a *.MOV video by 90 degrees ?

I have a *.MOV video from a digicam in portrait format.

In order to be able to see it correctly I have to rotate it by 90 deg.

How can I do this with QT Pro?

Peter

Posted on Jan 2, 2010 5:42 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 2, 2010 7:32 AM in response to pxstein

Movie Properties window.
Open it and click (once) on the video track. In the Visual Settings tab (lower half of the window) you can then rotate the video.
Save As to make it permanent.

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Answer 2

pxstein Author

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Jan 2, 2010 11:28 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

As I found out the problem is NOT completely solved.

I rotated and saved the movie as sugested. I can play it in the right orientation with Quickplayer.

But when I want to play it not with the QuickPlayer but with the well known, wide spread VLC video player ( http://www.videolan.org) then the rotation is not recognized. It is played again with 90 deg.

It seems to me that QT Pro changes just a certain hidden header field in the *.MOV video. VLC (and other players) cannot understand this.

Maybe I have not just to rotate and save the video but re-encode and save it.
Do you have a solution?

Peter

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Answer 3

Jan 6, 2010 3:54 PM in response to pxstein

Once you have rotated the movie in QT Pro, you can "Export" and that will re-encode it as rotated.

It will also improve playback performance because your machine won't have to rotate the image on the fly. All the usual issues with selecting a codec, data rate, etc apply on the export.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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