Rotating video events. Possible?

doowopper wrote on 11/1/2005, 1:53 PM

I am a newbie with Vegas Movie Studio 4.0a. Perhaps this is a naive question. Several of my video events are rotated 90 degrees, so the video images are sidways. (From holding the camcorder sideways?) Is it possible to rotate them back 90 degrees so they appear in the timeline as they should? If not, are there any other programs that can rotate the video events?
Thanks.
Richard

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Chienworks wrote on 11/1/2005, 2:03 PM

Yes. Pan/Crop has a rotation feature. Click the "FX" icon in the clip on the timeline, choose Event Pan Crop. There are settings for rotation and resizing.

doowopper wrote on 11/1/2005, 4:58 PM

Thanks for your response. I'll give it a try.
Richard

IanG wrote on 11/2/2005, 1:21 AM

>From holding the camcorder sideways?

That would do it - I don't think any camcorders can recognise that they're being used on their sides.

Ian G.

doowopper wrote on 11/2/2005, 3:07 AM

Ian,
Then, how would I wind up with parts of my video turned sideways, 90 degrees - just curious?
Thanks.
Richard

dibbkd wrote on 11/2/2005, 3:53 AM

Not to speak for Ian, but what he meant was that no camcorder can detect that it is being held sideways or upside down, and then correct the footage. The camcorder just assumes that if it's being held at a certain angle that's what you intended.

And I'm guessing you took this footage with your camera? Doesn't matter, just a guess.

And what they said about pan/crop works great, and personally I use pan/crop on a lot of my video footage just to get a better shot after the fact.

Chienworks wrote on 11/2/2005, 6:12 AM

I'm still laughing over the time years ago when we had my camcorder plugged into the TV and a bunch of us were goofing around having fun watching ourselves on the screen. One guy grabbed the camcorder from me and flipped it upsidedown so that everyone on the screen was standing on their heads. Then he got this shocked look on his face and said, "the picture is still right side up in the viewfinder!" Well, of course it is, but then again, it is actually upsidedown. The thing was, he was looking at the viewfinder umopap!sdn too, and the two flips cancel each other out. In fact, no matter what angle you hold the camera, if you are still standing straight up and down the viewfinder image will look upright to you. Sadly, after about 15 minutes of trying to explain this to him he finally gave up trying to understand.

As far as, "The camcorder just assumes that if it's being held at a certain angle that's what you intended.", even that's more complex than what is going on. Actually the camcorder simply records what it's pointed at.