rotate the picture

[Simon]

Hi! Is there a way to rotate a horizontal moving picture/
image to make it look upright while editing it in the
Movie Maker software? The image recorded in a video is
horizontal or upside down. Is there a way to rotate it
upright?

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Simon,

MM2 has a built-in effect to rotate a video by 90, 180 or 270 degrees.

That will distort the video somewhat.... if you need to do it without
distortion, then you'll have to use something like Virtual Dub, which can
crop and rotate the video file... it's a bit of added work but worth it if
the clip is important.

There's a link to Virtual Dub on the Setup > Software page of my site.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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[Rehan]

Hi

If you are taking about the distortion caused by "Rotate 90" and "Rotate
270" effects which expand the picture slightly in horizontal direction after
rotation..., then this can be overcome within MovieMaker by using custom
Rotate effects as proposed by me in another thread. These will preserve the
aspect ratio of the picture.


<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0" >
<Effects>
<EffectDLL guid="{B4DC8DD9-2CC1-4081-9B2B-20D7030234EF}">
<Effect name="Rotate 270 Better" iconid="23" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="Simple3D" />
<Param name="RotateA" value="left" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.25" />
</Effect>
<Effect name="Rotate 90 Better" iconid="24" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="Simple3D" />
<Param name="RotateA" value="right" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.25" />
</Effect>
</EffectDLL>
</Effects>
</TransitionsAndEffects>



Short Instructions to use these effects in Movie Maker:
Copy paste this code to a new text file named rotate.xml
and place the file in the folder: "C:\Program Files\Movie
Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX\". Create the AddOnTFX folder if
not there. Restart WMM.


Hope it helps

Rehan

 

[John Kelly]

Hello there,

See the effects option in Movie Maker...rotate 90 or 180 degrees. See the
help file for further info