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mickeymac - Nov 5, 2006 - 5:05 am

I have taken short videos with my digital camera and have turned the camera to frame the picture. In iPhoto i can rotate the pictures to correct them for viewing., is there a way to do the same for mpegs? I am stuck with video of couples dancing on their sides?

bobw - Nov 5, 2006 - 5:20 am

Hi Michael

See if these help;

http://www.gbradhopkins.com/archives...icktime_p.html

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archiv...p/t-13163.html

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

mickeymac - Nov 5, 2006 - 11:45 am

Duh! a simple upgrade wil do it
Thank you
michael

mickeymac - Nov 5, 2006 - 6:16 pm

Now i have rotated it and imported it to iMovie it has stetched to fit the screen and my beautiful Flamenco dancer has become short and dumpy! If she sees it she will kill me!

mickeymac - Nov 5, 2006 - 7:19 pm

Ok, I'm lost-in-space. I have imported my clips into iMovie and the audio has disappeared! I have searched Apple's help and followed all the checks, according to the help site i should be hearing the audio. I tried exporting to Quicktime movie and the same thing happened, the audio disappeared!

bobw - Nov 6, 2006 - 3:35 am

Michael

I'll have to reopen this for another tech to help with this.

bobw

mickeymac - Nov 6, 2006 - 4:50 am

Ok bobw,
Thanks for your help, i really appreciate it. This is all very new to me and it's a quagmire sometimes.
cheers
michael

LovesMacs - Nov 6, 2006 - 3:28 pm

OH vey.... been there done that! Ok.... here's what worked for me. If it hadn't my girlfriend would have looked like she weighed twice as much as she actually does and shot me.

Here's how you can rotate using QTPro and keep aspect ratio.

Open the file you need to rotate. The click Window>Show Movie Properties. When that window opens, click Video Track, then Video Settings. Rotate the file as needed. UNcheck the box where it shows: Aspect Ratio. Run the numbers until your video looks correct as far as vertical and horizontal pixels are conderned. You can also try the Offset boxes also. You have to experiment... you'll get the hang of it... it took me 5 tries before I finally got the results I wanted. Make sure you Save As the file after you get the aspect you want. Theoretically, that should do the trick.

Carolyn :-)

mickeymac - Nov 6, 2006 - 4:28 pm

Thanks Carolyn,
Works great! Now all i need to do is find out how to keep the audio. Apparently my camera takes Mpeg1 with muxed audio which gets lost in the translation. My beautiful flamenco dancer is now performing mime!

LovesMacs - Nov 6, 2006 - 7:11 pm

HI Michael,

I'm not sure what you mean by lost in translation... do you mean when you play the movie in QT there is no sound? and your camera definitely records sound ... ok... try this... Launch QT, open your flamenco dancer file, now in the Menu go to Window>Show Movie Properties. Then click: Audio Settings Make sure your audio settings are set correctly and that the Mute button is UNchecked.

Carolyn :-)
PS... lots of info on QTPro on the Apple site: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/

mickeymac - Nov 7, 2006 - 10:28 am

Thanks Carolyn.
Yes i've been living on the Apple site and in Google as well as bugging you guys.
The problem stems from the 'muxed' nature of the Mpeg1 file. I have purchased or downloaded a plethora of utilities in the past couple of days. I want to convert the video to a windows friendly medium and also rotating the file, which seems to lose the audio portion and converting it to .wmv is, so far, a disaster!
i will eventually try out every option for exporting or converting that the various apps offer. I will report back to you with how i suceed FYI.
Thanks again for your help.
You guys rock!
michael