Seeing as one of the most popular blog entries on my personal web site was about how to rotate video using mencoder, I decided to start sharing instructions on using linux and open source tools to edit and manipulate video.
I have to admit, I am not a professional videographer - which is why I don't see why I should spend good money on things that don't make some for me. While tootls such as windows video maker do work well, I always seem to want to do something that is not quite possible.
The platform I use is fedora, mostly because I use redhat at work, and I 'grew up' on redhat. I will try and use packages as much as possible - I don't want to tell you how to install stuff - just how to use it.
I encrouage you to ask questions and comment on what I do.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Rotating video with Mencoder
This is something that has been bugging me ever since I got a digital camera that could do video - how do you rotate a "portrait" video back to "landscape". Recently a friend asked me to do this for something important - a video she took for "The children's wish foundation" so I looked a little more. I finaly found how to do it with mencoder at Scott Hanselman's site.
He even goes into describing the flags for the tool - which is always good. As well, to make things cleaner, how to get the aspect ratio back to 4:3. I now have a few videos to rotate.
He even goes into describing the flags for the tool - which is always good. As well, to make things cleaner, how to get the aspect ratio back to 4:3. I now have a few videos to rotate.
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