Turn .AVI 90 degrees?

BaltikaTroika · 12-11-2004, 09:27 PM

I made a few videos with my digital camera. They're in .AVI format. I had to make the video with the camera turned 90 degrees (so it was a tall shot, not wide). I figured it would be easy to get some editing program to rotate the .AVI 90 degrees so it can be viewed properly.

Any ideas?

Baltika Troika

-Running Mandrake 10.0

Caeda · 12-11-2004, 09:46 PM

/me picks up your monitor, rotates it 90 degreess to the right, sets it back down.

There ya go. That'll fix it.

Other than that...

BaltikaTroika · 12-11-2004, 10:46 PM

Yeah, yeah, I know I left myself vulnerable to the packs of smartasses prowling the net.

Seriously, I know there must be a program out there that'll do it. I can do it under Windows (yuck!), but I'm trying my best to avoid dual-booting and gradually turning to the dark side.

Baltika

bareego · 12-12-2004, 12:46 AM

seems a bit involved, but at least it seems to work for that guy

http://www.edginet.org/techie/linux/canon_movies.html

a bit down the page he's written down how he does it.

I just fiddled a bit and it rotated nicely if I used something like

mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vop rotate=1 source.mpg -o target.avi

Cheers
Bareego

Caeda · 12-12-2004, 02:54 PM

/me ponders if he should have turned it to the left instead, as he might have left you with the video upside down. :-D\

Dun feel bad though. I used to put ebooks into the wide, sideways format so the whole page would fit, then tip the laptop on its side and prop it up like a bood so I could read it... lol

BaltikaTroika · 12-12-2004, 03:51 PM

I managed to fix the problem quite easily. Downloaded VirtualDub for Windows, rebooted into the Evil Empire, and fixed my video like that.

If it wasn't for a couple things like this (and copying DVDs), I would be able to trash Windows forever.

Caeda... that's really funny about the e-books... you really need a tablet pc!

I actually managed to read through Conan Doyle's Lost World on my Handspring Visor. I have no idea how I managed, but I did.

Dave