movie files rotating

Hill1 · 23-11-2005, 8:38 PM

Hi,

I have a number of video clips from my digital camera.
I need to rotate some of these, but all the programmes I have do not have this function.
Is there any software (free if possible) which will let me do this.

Thanks

Tonel · 24-11-2005, 10:11 AM

Try Virtualdub http://www.virtualdub.org/

It's free, has many filters available and is an excellent tool for manipulating AVI files.

There is a vertical and horizontal flip filters that will do a 180 rotation. Not sure what's available to do a 90 rotation.

Tony

melliott1963 · 24-11-2005, 2:24 PM

Windows Movie Maker 2 (if you're running Windows XP SP2 you'll already have this) lets you rotate video as you want.

** Edit **
I've just noticed you said your digital camera, which, of course, is different from a digital camcorder.

What format does your camera save it's movie files in? Windows Movie Maker accepts the following formats:-

• Video Files: .asf, .avi, .wmv
• Movie Files: .mpeg, .mpg, .mlv, .mp2, .mpa, .mpe
• Audio Files: .wav, .snd., .au, .aif, .aifc, .aiff, .wma, .mp3
• Windows Media Files: .asf, .wm, .wma, .wmv
• Still Image Files: .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .jfif, .gif, .dib

If your camera, as a lot of cameras do, saves it's movies as a Quicktime (.mov) file then you'll have to try something else - maybe VirtualDub, I'm not sure. Alternatively, there must be programs which will convert from Quicktime to Windows Video. If so, do this and then use Movie Maker.

Hill1 · 24-11-2005, 6:19 PM

Video clips are "Windows Movie" files.
I do have Windows Movie Maker but I'm not sure if its 1 or 2.

MarkE19 · 24-11-2005, 8:23 PM

If you have XP SP2 then Movie Maker automatically gets upgraded to version 2. Prior to SP2 it was available from MS as a separate free download.

Mark.