Video edit

[HONEYMON57ER]

Hi,
Just taken some footage at Bedford yesterday and like me, I would guess
some of you have to film with your camera upside down due to the bracket that
I stick on the window. I'm having trouble finding a way to rotate the movie.
It's mpeg4 and seems to play ok with Quicktime but that doesn't have any editing functions as such.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

[Maxx]

The only freeware video edit software I can think of that should be abel to do what you want is "virtualdub" although not sure it can handles MP4. If it does it may require a plugin to do so, you may need a plugin for the rotate as well.

Virtualdub is not particularly user friendly but there is lots of help out there, tutorials etc. It's well worth spending a bit of time with it as it does pretty much everything you could want and loads of stuff you never thought you might want.

If you cant find an mp4 codec plugin then download "Super" (also freeware)which can convert pretty much anything to anything (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html)

Maxx

[SpeedyDave]

SUPER can also do the rotate for you (flip, rotate etc is in the DirectShow options tab).

[Maxx]

SpeedyDave

Ah, great, didn't know that, thanks for the tip.

Maxx

[HONEYMON57ER]

Thanks guys,I'll give it a go.

[Wh00sher]

I use sony Vegas, but doesn`t windows media maker let you rotate / flip footage ?

[philevo6]

There you go...

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Vide...

Edited by philevo6 on Sunday 1st March 22:50

[Zumbruk]

Windows Movie Maker can invert video. And it's free.

[Herman Toothrot]

Zumbruk said:

Windows Movie Maker can invert video. And it's free.

I was playing with this the other day as I have a 15 min film I want to cut boring bits out of. It appeared to all work well in the program, but I can't seem to get it to save any changes to the files once i've exited the program? Any hints?

Other thing I want to do is compress it so its uploadable, at present my 15mins is 1gb...

[andy-xr]

You need to drag it down to the board, then export it once you're happy with the project

[Herman Toothrot]

andy-xr said:

You need to drag it down to the board, then export it once you're happy with the project

[HONEYMON57ER]

I've tried some of the suggestions above but none of them seem to like mpg4.
The only way I can get it to work is convert to mpg2 or AVI and then flip it
but then the quality isn't as good.