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This is such a trivial little thing that I'm not sure it's even Buffistechnology-worthy, but it doesn't seem to fit anywhere else:
I have a short (~15 seconds) film I took with our digital camera of Emmett and Matilda sliding down a slide together, blah blah cutecakes blah blah. But, since it was a longish slide, I held the camera sideways instead of right side up to take the film.
Now that it's uploaded, the film itself is sideways and neither iPhoto nor iMovie seem willing to cough up any instructions whatsoever for rotating it. Still photos, sure, but not the film. None of the immediately visible menu options do it, and I've combed through all of iMovie help using every search term I can think of and come up with nothing. Am I just SOL, or is there an easy obvious solution that I'm not seeing because they've buried it someplace I'll never find without assistance?
I take sideways movies by accident fairly often, and it never even occurred to me that there was a way to fix this! Go JZ with the asking! I await the answer...
Supposedly, Windows Moviemaker can rotate video 90 degrees: [link]
The word "Windows" scares me - will it work on a Mac or just muck things up worse?
I just opened up iMovie to see if I could find a solution, and...wow. I really really really really REALLY hate iMovie. I'd almost forgotten how much.
Er, which is to if you don't have FCP or FCE, a free solution is to download MPEG Streamclip and use that instead. (When you select "Export to Quicktime" there's a field for "rotation" that lets you select the angle and direction you need.)
Oh, AWESOME. Thanks! Bookmarking now.
I really really really really REALLY hate iMovie. I'd almost forgotten how much.
This is just amazingly irritating. It seems like such a simple little thing, and the kind of thing that they ought to have anticipated would come up all the damn time.
You can do it from Quicktime Pro.
NBC is launching it's own subscription tv show download service.
Apple's latest product - the iBrick? [link]
would apple really brick those iphones? wow.
