View Full Version : Is it possible to rotate videos?
andrew_carter
2003-02-23, 11:19 AM
This one's for all you talented computer literate people out there. Is it possible to rotate videos 90 degrees? I've got one of me riding along a wooden rail that I like but is turned on the side. It's in the 'Trials' section of my albums.
Can anyone help me please?
Thanks a lot,
Andrew
Uniwitold
2003-02-23, 12:17 PM
Great question!!!!. I have delightful video of mounting and ideling on a Cocker - all skay boud. It is spiritually v.inspiring and 'memento mori' but, I woud like to be more earthbound if possible.Thanks in anticipation.
Uniwitold.
VirtualDub will rotate video. In the "Video->Filters..." menu there are loads of different transformations and effects you can use, including two rotate ones; one rotates by right angles and the other rotates by any angle.
To save you the hassle your rotated video is here (www.flippet.org/video/Rail_Riding_Successful_Along_Wooden_Rail.avi). It's in DivX 5.0.3.
Nice videos, by the way!
Phil
U-Turn
2003-02-23, 03:09 PM
How do you rotate *.mov files? VDub won't do *.movs.
Originally posted by U-Turn
How do you rotate *.mov files? VDub won't do *.movs.
Very little does QuickTime stuff unless you've got a Mac. Adobe Premiere might do it, but that costs money...
Where do all these QuickTime movies come from? How do people make them?
Phil
andrew_carter
2003-02-23, 08:25 PM
more earthbound Well put!
Phil,
Wow! Thanks a lot for doing that, it was very nice of you :). I think there are a lot of situations where rotated (upright) videos are more appropriate so I'm gong to start taking more like that. Thanks a lot!
Andrew
U-Turn
2003-02-23, 08:48 PM
Where do all these QuickTime movies come from? How do people make them? My camera outputs them. Since I don't have a Mac....
Originally posted by U-Turn
My camera outputs them. Since I don't have a Mac....
Ah, that'd explain it.
After a quick Google I can't find a free way to convert a QT movie to an AVI. You'll need QuickTime Pro, Adobe Premiere or some other piece of software that I haven't found to do it.
Bah, quicktime...
Phil
U-Turn
2003-02-24, 12:49 AM
Thank you, Phil!
U-Turn
2003-02-24, 01:52 AM
I upgraded to QT Pro for $30. Pretty easy, and the rotation was easy once I read the Advanced Help text. I can also export to avi if I want to use VirtualDub. Thanks again, Phil.
Can't wait for the Legomen to ride again!
john_childs
2003-02-24, 01:56 AM
Originally posted by phil
After a quick Google I can't find a free way to convert a QT movie to an AVI. You'll need QuickTime Pro, Adobe Premiere or some other piece of software that I haven't found to do it.
You didn't look hard enough. :p
Rad Video Tools will convert a MOV to AVI.
<http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm>
And it's free, however they do ask for donations if you choose to.
I tested it on one of Greg Harper's MOV files (Greg riding Blue Shift) and it worked great. Here is a tutorial page on how to use Rad Video Tools to convert a MOV to AVI
<http://www.dvdrhelp.com/mov2avi.htm>
Rad Video Tools does more than just convert MOV files to AVI. Check out the help page and the FAQ on their web page for more info.
U-Turn
2003-02-24, 02:09 AM
it's free See below the line.
john_childs
2003-02-24, 02:15 AM
Originally posted by U-Turn
See below the line.
You can blame that one on Phil. :)
U-Turn
2003-02-24, 02:18 AM
You can blame that one on Phil. Naw. You guys both get a LOT of slack because of valuable services rendered. I'll just have to let the stress fester inside until it eats me alive.
:eek:
john_childs
2003-02-24, 03:11 AM
Originally posted by U-Turn
I'll just have to let the stress fester inside until it eats me alive.
:eek:
If it makes you feel any better, you should get better results using QT Pro than by converting the MOV to and AVI. When converting the MOV to AVI you end up recompressing a previously compressed video. Every time you recompress a video it degrades the quality because every time you recompress it the video looses even more information (we're using lossy compression afterall). Keeping it in QT format and letting QT do the rotation should minimize the loss in video quality. QT also has some impressive MPEG4 style compression much like DivX so you should be able to crunch down your files quite a bit.
U-Turn
2003-02-24, 03:26 AM
Whew - I feel better already!
I don't understand rotating video?
Are we talking about making pictures a rating video?
U-Turn
2003-02-26, 01:21 AM
I don't understand rotating video?
When I took the video I took it with the camera turned sideways for a portrait view. Unfortunately, the movie then looks like it is turned sideways. By rotating the movie 90 degree counterclockwise, it looks like it should.
nosabe332
2003-02-26, 01:48 AM
i've been waiting for an appropriate opportunity to ask this, and this seems appropriate enough...
phil, how did you create such masterful lego animations? it seems too smooth to be still animation, and yet.. .. so mesmerizing. oh, to know the secrets..
http://images.ofoto.com/photos270/7/79/86/9/16/0/16098679703_0_ALB.jpg
quick! to your juggling ball!<scurrying about>
nosabe332
2003-02-26, 02:57 AM
http://images.ofoto.com/photos270/7/79/86/9/85/0/85098679703_0_ALB.jpg
Reason I asked for explaination was because I was busy with something that sound simular -but is different-: a 360-degree rotating picture that you now can see at my (complete re-made, and just launched)
website (http://www.unicycle.net/) (mirrored at 3! locations).
If you experience any trouble viewing it, you might have to clean your temp.internet-files.
Please report all troubles to me, if they occur.
The weak MX detection for the video parts,
and the cookie/domain security are know issues.
Ah, aditional question:
Is there anyone out there who has a DVD-player (on her/his computer or not) AND can record me those paramount trumpets (in the most regular .wav format, so I can import it in flash)?
help very appreciated.
Originally posted by leo
If you experience any trouble viewing it, you might have to clean your temp.internet-files.
Please report all troubles to me, if they occur.
Are you aware the site just goes mental in Mozilla, and doesn't seem to work properly in Opera?
Mozilla just constantly refreshes the first page with text on without reaching the flash page; Opera reaches the flash page but never gets past the "Presents..." section.
Phil
Originally posted by nosabe332
phil, how did you create such masterful lego animations? it seems too smooth to be still animation, and yet.. .. so mesmerizing. oh, to know the secrets..
The majority of it is indeed stop-motion animation, running at 10 frames a second. It doesn't take *that* long; move object / click button / move object / click button...
The hardest bit is animating lego people running; that takes ages. You've got to remember which direction their arms and legs are moving in to try and make it look like realistic movement, at the same time as ensuring they're running in a straight line at a constant speed.
Takes time, but it's good fun!
Phil
nosabe332
2003-02-28, 09:54 AM
Originally posted by phil
The majority of it is indeed stop-motion animation, running at 10 frames a second. It doesn't take *that* long; move object / click button / move object / click button...
Phil
10 frames a second.. incredible. that sounds like many many miniscule movements. your attention to detail is impressive. i applaud you, sir. <applaud> i will have to try this some time, though it will be very short. thanks for the information.
Originally posted by nosabe332
10 frames a second.. incredible. that sounds like many many miniscule movements.
It's not that bad if you consider the average length of a shot... a second is a long time, really, for a stop-motion shot. Few of the shots in my videos go much over that.
It's generally only a few shots that take ages, such as running legomen; other shots are dead easy, like moving a car, they don't take very long. Click, push it forward a bit, click, push forward, click... it's quite a speedy process.
your attention to detail is impressive.
Heh... you evidently haven't seen the videos where I forget to move random things out of the way... the motorbike video has bits of blu-tack dancing around all over the place... :)
Thanks,
Phil
unibrow
2003-03-01, 12:44 AM
well im sure alot of you watch the X-games, and they rotate there camera angles buy have a whole bunch of camers take pictures and then they peice it all together to look like the matrix thing were the camera goes around her.
andrew_carter
2003-03-01, 01:05 AM
I've always loved that effect. How many cameras do they use?
Andrew
I think this thread has now two subjects..?
Originally posted by andrew_carter
How many cameras do they use?
1, that 360 is made with the 1st digital IXUS ( = ELPH within Americas).
It had software in it's OS that could show a seam of the previously token picture.
Of 21 pictures, I (trick!) selected 13 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 to make it real neat using Canon's Photostitch software.
(if you copy/rename 13 and 14 the software wont make "warnings").
(And yes, you can only take pictures if moving objects are in the centre).
The jpeg output I resize and sharpen in adobe, then import it in Flash (4, I even still have 2).
What you see is a movement of the very wide jpeg to the left (under a mask), when it reaches the end, the clip loops to the beginning part that has exactly the same content.
Originally posted by ...leo
Please report all troubles
core www is very down, bad sectors, hard to get scusi...
never thought I would need the mirrors that quick. They do their job very well.
Mail goes to fallback, only problem is guestbook.
I'll fix it monday.
Wow the Legomen (http://www.flippet.org/muni/videos.html) are cool! Guess you'll visit the
European Juggling Convention (http://www.ejc2003.dk/) this year (...Danmark!!)
Anyone knows how this (http://www.nokia.be/8210/nl/8210_qtvr.html) (quicktime) is done?
Or how to name it...
.
Originally posted by leo
Anyone knows how this (http://www.nokia.be/8210/nl/8210_qtvr.html) (quicktime) is done?
...In roughly the same way this pwetty panorama of mountains (http://www.flippet.org/switzerland/mountains.mov) is done... QuickTime VR. It needs a recent (dunno how recent... 5 or 6) version of QuickTime but is rather nice.
This was stitched together from lots of photos on top of the Schynige Platte in Switzerland, near Interlaken. "Panavue" is the demo version of the software I used.
Presumably Nokia spent rather more effort on theirs than I just did on mine... :)
Phil
john_childs
2003-03-09, 05:20 AM
Originally posted by leo
Ah, aditional question:
Is there anyone out there who has a DVD-player (on her/his computer or not) AND can record me those paramount trumpets (in the most regular .wav format, so I can import it in flash)?
help very appreciated.
I've got it here
http://backcountry.unicyclist.com/TrumpetFanfare.mp3
It makes a 4MB wav (at CD quality) so I converted it to a 320 bit mp3. Even as an mp3 it's 948KB. You should be able to convert it to a wav and also downsample it to get it smaller. I fiture it's better for you to downsample it since I don't know what quality and file size you ultimately need.
Let me know when you get the file so I can delete it from my web page.
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