Rotating videos in Quicktime Prop & uploading to youtube

I recorded a video on my digital camera, and rotated it from horizontal to vertical with Quicktime Pro. However, on uploading it to youtube the video has rotated back to its original state, which means you have to tilt your head to watch it. Is there a way of preventing this from happening?

Mini Mac, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on May 30, 2007 4:08 AM

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May 30, 2007 5:01 AM in response to AeroQ

Hi,

If you export the rotated movie, for example to Apple
TV format, or to MPEG4, then upload it to YouTube,
then it will work.
This adds an intermediate step though.

Regards, BJ



Hi BJ, many thanks for your help. I exported it as an MPEG4 and uploaded it, but this has drastically reduced the quality... which wasn't happening when it had only been rotated by youtube. Is there a way of keeping the quality and rotating? Thanks!

May 30, 2007 7:30 AM in response to David M Brewer

I still can't make it work... I'm doing the following:
1) Opening my .mpeg file in quicktime
2) Going to Window, and then Show Movie Properties. Clicking on MPEG1 Muxed, then rotating the video.
3) 'Save as' .mepg4 and .mov (I've tried both) a self contained movie
4) Uploading to youtube where it rotates back to the original position.

What am I still doing wrong!!!

May 30, 2007 12:51 PM in response to larabelle24

Open the file as is in MPEG Streamclip.

Export to a non lossy QT format like Animation. (File export to Quicktime, select animation as the codec)

Open that in QTPro.

Rotate and save in a reasonable format, H264 with a bitrate of 1400 will do a good job.

You cannot export MPEG 1 or 2 at all from QT and not lose the audio so you will have to convert to QT with Streamclip to get a workable QT file that you can edit in QTPro.

Since it will be gigantic you need to compress it so it can be submitted, if they handle H264 then use that, if not use MPEG-4 and a 2500 kbps bitrate.

Note MPEG-1 looks pretty lousy most of the time, and a lot of Youtube clips look pretty awful too in Flash due to low bit rates originally and upscaling bigger than 320X240 (MPEG-1 standard) so this should look no worse.

I don't rotate clips as a rule, but when it is open in Streamclip have a gander at the options and see if you can rotate and save in MPEG-4 and all in one step. I know you can crop the size, so rotation, maybe too.

May 30, 2007 1:13 PM in response to Ricktoronto

That's it...even tho you rotated the video and did a save as...and it looks rotated on your computer, rotating and doing a save as didn't edit the video. You can't really edit a mpeg-1 with Qt.

I just sent a rotated mpeg-1 to youtube. It rotated back to the original state.

Do as Ricktoronto states above...

If you had stated at first it was a mpeg-1. This could have some you some time in here...

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