[brodeck]

Yup, I took a movie on my digital camera in portrait mode.

I lurked the forums a bit and realized that I need QuickTime Pro to rotate the video for proper viewing. I bought it, downloaded/installed it on top of QT player, and successfully rotated the video.

So when I click on the .mov video, QuickTime opens and runs it in the rotated format that makes it viewable.

The problem is that VideoWave (I have EMC8) sees it in its original format while in .mov format.

Any suggestions?

BTW, I did export the video in QTPro to a .avi format, and this seemed to work for VW8. Unfortunately, I dropped most of the resolution in this solution, also going from a 24MB file to a 10MB file.

Thanks for your help!

[sknis]

brodeck, on Sep 27 2006, 09:42 PM, said:

Yup, I took a movie on my digital camera in portrait mode.
I lurked the forums a bit and realized that I need QuickTime Pro to rotate the video for proper viewing. I bought it, downloaded/installed it on top of QT player, and successfully rotated the video.
So when I click on the .mov video, QuickTime opens and runs it in the rotated format that makes it viewable.
The problem is that VideoWave (I have EMC8) sees it in its original format while in .mov format.
Any suggestions?
BTW, I did export the video in QTPro to a .avi format, and this seemed to work for VW8. Unfortunately, I dropped most of the resolution in this solution, also going from a 24MB file to a 10MB file.
Thanks for your help!

Surprising how many people do that. In VideoWave, separate the rotated video from the rest that is filmed correctly. Put a color panel the same time length as the rotated video on the native video track. Take that rotated video and add it to one of the overlay tracks. You can rotate that video there. If the whole video is rotated, that makes it easy; if it only a section, you may want to do what is given above and output it to a avi or mpg2 file and then add that file to the rest of your production. Post back if you want more detailed instructions.

Nope, that video was normal; I rotated it 90 degrees for effect.

This post has been edited by sknis: 28 September 2006 - 12:30 PM

[brodeck]

sknis, on Sep 28 2006, 01:29 PM, said:

Surprising how many people do that. In VideoWave, separate the rotated video from the rest that is filmed correctly. Put a color panel the same time length as the rotated video on the native video track. Take that rotated video and add it to one of the overlay tracks. You can rotate that video there. If the whole video is rotated, that makes it easy; if it only a section, you may want to do what is given above and output it to a avi or mpg2 file and then add that file to the rest of your production. Post back if you want more detailed instructions.

Nope, that video was normal; I rotated it 90 degrees for effect.

Well, now I know how people feel when I try to explain other techie things to them!

(I have five other videos and a slideshow that need to be in submenus to work. Whatever we do with this sideways video, I hope to add the result to the project in MyDVD. I'm not sure how to get the same result in VW8.)

Anyway, I Add Photo/Video and the sideways video show up.

I see the button for Add Overlay and the menu choice of Insert Color Panel when right-clicking on my sideways video.

From there, I can't figure out what your intentions are above!

I am heartened by the bfact that my dilemma will be solved - I just need you to use tiny words in short sentences.

Thanks again for your help!

[brodeck]

Okay, I think I got most of what you're trying to tell me. However, I am still lacking a couple things to make this perfecto.

To begin with, I rotated the video 90 degrees, but it seems to have cropped some of my video. The original dimentions are 240x320, and now the video seems to have lost some of the "320". Where can I get the proper size adjustments made?

The other question concerns the resolution.

Since I captured this on a non-SLR digital camera, the quality isn't that great. I would like to restrict the video to a smaller portion of the screen so the resolution is decent. Yet, it seems to want to expand as large as possible.

Where can I define the size of the video, or tell it to stay at the size I recorded it??

Thanks for your help.

[sknis]

brodeck, on Sep 28 2006, 10:37 PM, said:

Okay, I think I got most of what you're trying to tell me. However, I am still lacking a couple things to make this perfecto.

To begin with, I rotated the video 90 degrees, but it seems to have cropped some of my video. The original dimentions are 240x320, and now the video seems to have lost some of the "320". Where can I get the proper size adjustments made?

The other question concerns the resolution.

Since I captured this on a non-SLR digital camera, the quality isn't that great. I would like to restrict the video to a smaller portion of the screen so the resolution is decent. Yet, it seems to want to expand as large as possible.

Where can I define the size of the video, or tell it to stay at the size I recorded it??

Thanks for your help.

I refer you back to the image. Just above the rotation slide there are the height and width. Use them. Since you want to make it much smaller, you might like to put an image or another video on the main tracks to work as the background. Once you make it smaller, you can also move it around to get a picture in picture or in this case a video in video effect.

[brodeck]

sknis, on Sep 29 2006, 03:35 AM, said:

I refer you back to the image. Just above the rotation slide there are the height and width. Use them. Since you want to make it much smaller, you might like to put an image or another video on the main tracks to work as the background. Once you make it smaller, you can also move it around to get a picture in picture or in this case a video in video effect.

Thanks for your patience, Steve. My misunderstanding was that I thought this affected the height-width ratio. I changed the size to 75% and the entire video now fits. As for multiple videos, I'm leaving it in the middle with the pillars on either side.

This video is of my son getting commissioned in the Navy, so it has been a source of concern to get it right.

It looks like the size on screen of this rotated video is set with the size choice inside Settings.

That being the case, I have five other low-res videos that are in landscape mode that also need to be downsized.

Do I need to treat them as an overlay and size them that way, or is there a better way of doing it?

Thanks for your help!

[sknis]

brodeck, on Sep 29 2006, 08:36 AM, said:

Thanks for your patience, Steve. My misunderstanding was that I thought this affected the height-width ratio. I changed the size to 75% and the entire video now fits. As for multiple videos, I'm leaving it in the middle with the pillars on either side.
This video is of my son getting commissioned in the Navy, so it has been a source of concern to get it right.
It looks like the size on screen of this rotated video is set with the size choice inside Settings.
That being the case, I have five other low-res videos that are in landscape mode that also need to be downsized.
Do I need to treat them as an overlay and size them that way, or is there a better way of doing it?
Thanks for your help!

Overlay is the only way I know of getting all the "corners" in.

[brodeck]

sknis, on Sep 30 2006, 06:01 AM, said:

Overlay is the only way I know of getting all the "corners" in.

Thanks Steve, I'll use overlays to shrink my low-res videos on the screen.

Yet another question!

Having inserted a color panel and using my video as an overlay on top of it, I send it to MyDVD. The only problem is that I see a checkerboard rectangle in the menu, not the "preview video" normally seen.

Is there any way for the preview video to be shown? If not, can I change the checkerboard to another picture?

Thanks.