G9 Movies in Portrait Mode

[wingspar]

Yesterday I was playing while hiking a trail. I took a movie with my G9 near the bottom of the trail where it wound thru a switchback, crossed a footbridge, and onto the ocean. I shot it in portrait. Looking at the video on my computer, I have to lay on my side to see it properly. The only video editing software I have is the Movie Editor that comes with XP. I looked, but can’t find a way to rotate the video. Is there a way to rotate the video, or did I just learn a lesson to not shoot video in portrait mode?

[MartinLWedge]

I think that you have just learned a lesson.

Have you ever seen a video, film, TV etc. in portrait mode. I think not.

We all learn by our mistakes

If it could be rotated you would loose the top and bottom making it landscape, which is what you should have used.

Better luck next time

[K-Holed]

You could always download the fully functional demo of Adobe Premiere CS4 ... that would let you transform the video to fit vetically onto the screen space (although it would be shrunk down somewhat in order to preserve the top and bottom of the picture.)

Alternatively you could get one of those Dell monitors that you can use vertically or horizontally.

[Marius B]

www.virtualdub.com

[wingspar]

I think that you have just learned a lesson.

Have you ever seen a video, film, TV etc. in portrait mode. I think not.

We all learn by our mistakes

If it could be rotated you would loose the top and bottom making it landscape, which is what you should have used.

Better luck next time

I figured this was a lesson learned. I can’t think if I’ve ever seen a video in portrait mode before. I’m sure I have, but not often. I’m so use to shooting portrait mode while shooting sports, that it never occurred to me that it wouldn’t work for video.

You could always download the fully functional demo of Adobe Premiere CS4 ... that would let you transform the video to fit vetically onto the screen space (although it would be shrunk down somewhat in order to preserve the top and bottom of the picture.)

Alternatively you could get one of those Dell monitors that you can use vertically or horizontally.

Well, it’s not that big of a deal. This is a trail I hike a lot, so I’ll just delete it and do it over. I wanted to do a Winter / Spring thing, and it’s just for me anyway. Something to look at on a gloomy rainy day.

I like my calibrated CRT LaCie monitor, and will use it till it totally dies.

www.virtualdub.com

That looks interesting. Thanks for the link, but I’ll probably delete and do over.

[Marius B]

Download VirtualDub from http://www.virtualdub.org. (http://www.virtualdub.org./)

After you have installed and started virtualdub:

1. File - Open a video file
2. Video - Filters... -add - rotate - ok (choose direction) ok - ok
3. Video - compression (choose codek) - evt. configure - ok
4 File - save as .AVI - Save

I used it to help my girlfriend who had a friend film her, and when the show was finished, she saw that the hole thing was filmed Portrait mode. Worked like a charm. But the format of the video in her old camera didn't work.

[ambroseliao]

You can also use QuickTime Pro from Apple. You have to purchase the license from Apple, though.

Ambrose