Rotate Video?

jlkd wrote on 12/28/2004, 1:25 PM
Very new at this...

My father took some video (AVI) with my digital camera and he apparently held the camera vertically.

I have Screenbalst Movie Studio but recently upgraded to Vegas DVD to edit camcorder footage. I just haven't loaded it on the new computer.

Of course, I never have this problem with video from the camcorder (rotating) but can someone advise if there is a way to rotate video? Appreciate the help...and I feel a bit stupid at the moment.

judith

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GaryKleiner wrote on 12/28/2004, 1:45 PM
Open the Pan/Crop tool for the media and type inan agle of rotation of - or + 90. Make suer that Locl Aspect Ratio is on and drag one corner of the box so that the sides of the box line up with the new top and bottom of the video. You will have to either crop the image to fill the screen or leave a space on the left and right.

Gary
jlkd wrote on 12/28/2004, 2:06 PM
Gary,

Thanks very much. That worked.

Can I bother you once more?

I did as you said and checked the "original aspect ratio" and the like. After I "made the movie" the file I saved to my hard drive was much larger than the original. I'm reading the manual, and these boards, but I'm afraid that sensitivity to these editing nuances will only come with much more experience - more than what I have at the moment.

thanks again

jd
BillyBoy wrote on 12/28/2004, 2:55 PM
The file size you end up with depends on the file format, (AVI, WMV, MPEG, etc.) and the bitrate you tell Vegas or another product to encode it at. For example a uncompressed AVI file would be many, many times your original source (if different then uncompressed AVI) and rather small if you use WMV (Microsoft's format) or something like Real Media both of which use lots of compression at the expense of quality. Again depends on the bitrate you select under options when you pick a template if you want something different then the default.
kentwolf wrote on 12/28/2004, 4:56 PM
>>...The file size you end up with depends on the file format, (AVI, WMV, MPEG, etc.) and the bitrate...

Also, it depnds on the video resolution (?? x ??).

You can start wiht a small/low resolution, encode to a large/high resolution. (i.e. to 320 x 240 TO 640 x 480)

This would also account for the difference in file sizes; going from smaller to larger.
jlkd wrote on 12/29/2004, 4:51 PM
Thanks everyone. Appreciate the help and the fact that you spent time to explain something of this nature that I'm sure is pretty basic to you. I've been reading quite a bit and video editing is becoming quite addictive. I'm sure you will see me back here with additional questions.

thanks again

judith
Liam_Vegas wrote on 12/29/2004, 5:26 PM
If it ended up much larger than the original file then you managed to render the video probably using the <default> template for the AVI format? And that would save it as raw uncompressed video which is much larger than DV AVI. What you should do is choose the most appropriate AVI templete - which will be eaither NTSC DV AVI or PAL DV AVI. - depending on your camcorder/region