Rotating "landscape" movie

[Guest]

I thought I was clever in rotating my digital camera sideways to take
advantage of bugle ceremony at tall flagpole. Now I can't rotate the file
except when viewing through camera. Help!

 

[eeyore]

You may wish to look at Virtualdub www.virtualdub.org/index

When you load the movie to virtualdub apply 2 filters (video->filters)
1 'Rotate' to get the movie onto the side and


2. 'resize' to fill out areas to get the movie to a 4:3 ratio
(widthxheight) otherwize MM will stretch it.


For step 2: If you have a movie that is 640x480 you have flipped it - it
is now 480x640. To make it 4:3 you have to widen the width to 854 (or
4:3 times your new height (640)).
To do this my settings are:
New width 480 (this setting means the width of the movie itself)
New Height 640
Filter mode: fiddle with this to suit your movie (it can affect the end
quality but I can never remember which I use so I always play with it a
few times - I think I generally use nearest neighbor cause it is the
first one to come up)
Expand letterbox and frame image is ticked
Frame width 854
Frame height 640
Fill colour - I use black but it can be whatever suits
Press OK


3. Save the movie as AVI (if it is too big uncompressed then look at the
video->compression option)


Then import the movie to moviemaker


Hope this helps

If you have any problems dont hesitate to ask.


Eeyore

 

[Rehan]

Movie Maker has a "Rotate 90" and "Rotate 270" effect that you can apply to
the rotated clip inthe timeline to rotate it back to upright position.

However this doesn't work very well as it incorrectly changes the aspect
ratio too. To overcome this I made these custom effects which should do a
better job.



<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0" >
<Effects>
<EffectDLL guid="{B4DC8DD9-2CC1-4081-9B2B-20D7030234EF}">
<Effect name="Rotate Right" iconid="24" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="Simple3D" />
<Param name="RotateA" value="right" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.25" />
</Effect>
<Effect name="Rotate Left" iconid="23" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="Simple3D" />
<Param name="RotateA" value="left" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.25" />
</Effect>
<Effect name="Rotate Right Fit" iconid="24" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="Simple3D" />
<Param name="RotateA" value="right" />
<Param name="ScaleA" value="0.75" />
<Param name="InitialScaleA" value="0.75" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.25" />
</Effect>
<Effect name="Rotate Left Fit" iconid="23" >
<Param name="InternalName" value="Simple3D" />
<Param name="RotateA" value="left" />
<Param name="ScaleA" value="0.75" />
<Param name="InitialScaleA" value="0.75" />
<Param name="Progress" value="0.25" />
</Effect>
</EffectDLL>
</Effects>
</TransitionsAndEffects>



Instructions:
=========
Copy paste the xml code into notepad and Save As "rotate.xml" in the folder
C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX.
Create the AddOnTFX folder if necessary.
Confirm the file has .xml extension by turning off the "hide extensions of
known file types" from Explorer > Tools > Folder options > View.
Restart WMM. Locate the new effects "Rotate Left" etc in the Effects section

 

[TonyAF]

Is there anywhere that lists what parameter names are available and what
values they can take on? I work on government computers and can't run
executables--no special DLL's. I would like to do PIP but can only use XML
and .FX files. Is that possible?

Thanks
Tony

 

[PapaJohn]

see my website's Edit Movies > Transitions page.... my early PIP was done
solely with XML files. See the earlier newsletters #5 other others... the
links are on that page and the newsletters contain details.

 

[TonyAF]

PapaJohn,

Even your old XML in newsletter #5 had a DLL GUID in it. I tried to update
to an XML version 2.8 but it didn't work.

All of the insert translations use Annimation/Wipe and Mesh/Inset--is there
not a way to stop the progress of that? Is there anyplace that has all of
the XML commands and values with each Param Name? Even the SDK only provides
a couple.

This is pretty frustrating.

Tony

 

[PapaJohn]

I thought you were referring to added DLLs... that DLL pointer in the XML
is to a standard folder of files, not something added.

Some of the users who frequent the forums at www.windowsmoviemakers.net
study the options a lot more than I do. I'm not aware of any comprehensive
list of commands and values.