The T-Files


Sat, 30 Aug 2008

Rotating video clips

Quick software tip: MPEG Streamclip.

Every picture viewer these days can also rotate the image by 90 degrees, but the same feature is much less available for video, so that I had to do quite a Google dance to find a way to fix a clip I shot with my mobile phone turned sideways. iPhoto cannot do it, Preview (which is surprisingly competent for photo editing ) does not do video, VLC does not do it, and I do not know how to do anything in iMovie. Quicktime Pro can do it, but that is not free. MPEG Streamclip is free, runs on Macs and Windows, and has a great number of features to cut and convert videos (if you know where to find them in the rather clunky UI).