How to rotate a .mov file
June 18, 2007
My trusty and somewhat aging Nikon records videos in 15sec chunks, and saves them as .mov files. If you’ve made the same mistake as me, and recorded while holding the camera vertically, it’s a bit annoying. Fortunately, there’s a simple process to string the files together and rotate the picture:
- Get Bink And Smacker Video Tools: http://www.radgametools.com
- Get virtualdub: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9649
- Get your favourite compressor (divx, xvid, wmv etc)
- Start bink and smacker, choose the input .mov file, and convert to an avi. If you choose the first .mov file in a sequence, the software is smart enough to ask to append them all together
- Start virtualdub and open file. Choose filters, and add the rotate filter. Save to output file
- Open previous file, then choose compression options, and resave. Voila!
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Bret | October 9, 2008 at 3:49 am
I tried this, but when I converted it to an AVI under Bink and Smacker, the audio got off track and skipped in many places. Thus the rotate did too, and the conversion was useless. Have you found this to be the case?
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baykus | October 17, 2008 at 12:06 pm
not really, no. the steps above worked perfectly for me, but I guess there must be differences in the codecs? dunno