Often video taken by a cellphone or digital camera needs rotating to viewed on your computer. You can do this quickly in iMovie 08. Follow these instructions to get started.
Step One Launch iMovie by clicking its icon in the dock.
Step Two Select Import Movies... from the File menu.
Step Three If prompted select the video format you would like to use and then click the Ok button. Note: In most cases it is fine to use the Large video format.
Step Four Select the movie you would like to import from the popup window. Then choose to either Add to existing Event or Create new Event. I created a new event and called it Upside Down Video. Now click the Import button.
Step Five You will now notice your new Event added in the Event Library. Select the event.
Step Six Select the portion of video you would like to work with. You do this by clicking at the start point and dragging your mouse to the end point, then release. Notice a yellow box will outline the clip you selected. To fine tune your selection you can use the edges of the yellow box as handles. Drag these handles to fine tune your selection.
Step Seven Drag your selection to the empty filmstrip above.
Step Eight Select the clip you just added to the filmstrip.
Step Nine Click the Crop Tool on the toolbar.
Step Ten Notice the preview window now shows your video clip with some controls overlaid. To rotate your video clip you simply click the left or right arrow to rotate.
Once the video clip is oriented correctly, click the Done button.
Step Eight Now select Export using QuickTime... from the Share menu. NOTE***: You could also use any of the other Share methods and your output will be your newly rotated video clip.
Step Nine Give the movie a name using the Save As field then click the Save button. Your exported movie will now be rotated correctly!
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The rotated clips look fine in iMovie but when played in quicktime only the middle third shows - off with their heads and feet!
What am I missing?
Thanks
Papa Sandy
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!
I spent almost an hour googling before I found your post. You saved me from having to go to my husband's computer for Final Cut. THANK YOU!!
Good tip. I think you'll have to drag the movie from the event field to a new project, though, before exporting the movie. At least I had to do that on iMovie 08 on Snow Leopard.
wow this is amazing thank you so much :)
i've been looking for something to help me out and i finally found it
everywhere i went it was only for imovie HD, and since i'm new to the mac world it was very useful, thanks :)