Photo Booth Video is Backwards

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Photo Booth Video is Backwards

If you make a video in Photo Booth all the images and words are backwards. Does anyone know how to make a Photo Booth video that is not backwards?

Thank you.

iMac Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jan 28, 2010 6:56 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 29, 2010 4:12 AM in response to bonedog

There are a few workarounds for this problem, but none are terribly elegant. Here's one:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090125141307324

And there are a few software recommendations in this thread that could work, including using iMovie, QuickTime Pro, or some 3rd-party apps:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2231648&tstart=0

Hope this helps.

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bonedog Author

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Jan 29, 2010 8:39 AM in response to Jay Bullock

Thank you for the workarounds. I have an old video camera that might work with my old copy of iMovie instead. Or better yet, do you know if Photo Booth videos can be flipped (un-mirrored) in the new Snow Leopard Mac OS?

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CMCSK

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Jan 29, 2010 3:09 PM in response to bonedog

Photobooth/Edit/Auto Flip New Photos
I do believe the same settings are in Leopard.

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Answer 4

Jan 29, 2010 3:16 PM in response to CMCSK

CMCSK wrote:
Photobooth/Edit/Auto Flip New Photos
I do believe the same settings are in Leopard.

That flips photos, but not videos.

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CMCSK

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Jan 29, 2010 4:29 PM in response to Jay Bullock

I stand corrected. I just tried it. Works for photos but not videos. I had mistakenly assumed that if the setting worked for photos, it would automatically work for the videos.

Post your question in the iSight forum area. I bet Ralph Johns (UK) (check out his links at the top of the site) or EZ Jim can help you out or refer you to 3rd party utilities that can flip videos.

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bonedog Author

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Jan 29, 2010 8:27 PM in response to CMCSK

Thank you, everyone, for the tips. I went to the iSite forum and found a post from EZ Jim that listed several solutions. The one that worked best for me was using my iMovie HD 6.0.3 which can flip a PhotoBooth video clip via Editing > Video FX > Mirror.

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EZ Jim

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Jan 29, 2010 10:02 PM in response to bonedog

bonedog wrote:
Thank you, everyone, for the tips. I went to the iSite forum and found a post from EZ Jim that listed several solutions. The one that worked best for me was using my iMovie HD 6.0.3 which can flip a PhotoBooth video clip via Editing > Video FX > Mirror.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10574807&#10574807

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