How do I rotate an .mts (AVCHD Lite) video clip 90 degrees?

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How do I rotate an .mts (AVCHD Lite) video clip 90 degrees?

How do I rotate an .mts (AVCHD Lite) video clip 90 degrees? It's a video taken in the portrait orientation with a digital camera. I can open the .mts video clip in VLC player for Mac, but I don't see any editing options relevant to this.

Macbook Pro (silver), Mac OS X (10.6.3), iPhone 2G

Posted on Jun 13, 2010 9:28 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 13, 2010 10:21 PM in response to g-pod

If it will play with QuickTime Player, then you can rotate it with QuickTime Pro.
<http://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/>
It provides a key to enable extra functions in QuickTime Player 7 (Utilities folder).
Click "Show Movie Properties" in the "Window" menu, select the video track, then the "Visual Settings" tab. Select the desired rotation, then "Save As" from the "File" menu.

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Jun 13, 2010 10:52 PM in response to Malcolm Rayfield

Unfortunately, QuickTime doesn't seem to support this file format. The odd thing is that this is the format coming off all Lumix digital cameras, and various other cameras by other manufacturers as well, so I'm surprised free software for this type of task is so hard to come by.

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Answer 3

Jun 13, 2010 11:01 PM in response to g-pod

Install Perian, then see if it will play in QuickTime Player.
<http://www.perian.org>

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Jun 13, 2010 11:17 PM in response to Malcolm Rayfield

I have Perian 1.2.1 already. 😟

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Answer 5

Jun 15, 2010 12:02 PM in response to g-pod

You might like to try MPEG Streamclip. It will load most movie formats and you can rotate a movie during export.

http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

and its free!!!

Message was edited by: Noiseboy2006

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