Rotate and edit videos

I aswered your question already here (regarding the "rotate"): Re: How do I rotate video?

Very basic video editing can be done in Aperture as part of the "Slideshow" rendering: trimming, adding transitions, ken burns effect and other effects, adding audio.

With iMovie you will get more versatile editing at an amateur level, for the "full program" you will need Final Cut or similar.

Browse the "Final Cut" and the "iMovie" boards for more detailed information.

Regards

Léonie

What is your MacOS and Quicktime Version? I used MacOS 10.7.4 and QuickTime Player 10.1.

MacOS 10.7 and QuickTime Player 10 came preinstalled with the Mac.

Phoenix Mirage wrote:

Im searching for a good app to rotate and edit videos I've taken. Im affraid to purchase any of them I get in search. imove and rotate HD came up. I go upon the rating but looking at them it seems the developers of those apps rate them to make them look better. When I actually read and research the apps they arent that great and have a lot of flaws. I dont want to waist the time and money. From the looks of it all Apple doesnt test these apps thoroughly, which is ashame. Does anyone have any real suggestions?

Rediculous comment, even from a Windows user.

For an Apple user this is easy, as described below. For Windows please ask the question on a Microsoft forum.

You can do this using Quicktime Pro 7:

Open MOV file in QT Pro (QT 7.6.6)

Window -> Show Movie Properties

select "Video Track"

select "Visual Settings" from lower window

check "Preserve Aspect Ratio"

Click on appropriate rotation icon (MOV rotates!)

Click back on the open MOV in Player Window

FILE -> Save

You can also do this using TransformMovie, available here:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21859

Also, MPEG Streamclip can rotate video while maintaining the aspect ratio as well as the interlacing when converting to DV, which is what iMovie prefers as an input:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html

There is also a plug-in for iMovie from GeeThree called rotate/scale that might do the job:

http://geethree.com/slick/index.html

Further useful information here:

http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCD_on_a_Macintosh.html#vert-horiz_rotate

http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCD_on_a_Macintosh.html#43-169

Please post back with the results, and of which solution you tried.

Great news - thanks for the feedback! 🙂

And thank you Klaus1, for assisting in this!

Léonie

Old thread, but still very useful. I too looked for a video editor for Mac

for ages and stumbled across your forum. Now you can use an app called Vivideo. it's far superior, and will rotate your videos. It costs a bit, but u can try it out free first to see if it works for what

you need it for

But iMovie is already on your Mac?