[MacDV] Re: Need to create vertical videos with text

[Brent Radbourne]

At this url    http://www.imovieplugins.com/plugs/turnclip.html   you 
can download for free a plugin for imovie that will rotate your clip 90 
or 180 degrees.


On 3-Nov-06, at 1:50 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

> All I get is a "server not responding" message when I click on "plasma 
> windmills"
>
> I had thought of rotating my movie in QT then re-importing it back 
> into iMovie but when I tried it my now 3:4 movie gets stretched to fit 
> a 4:3 window, completely distorting it. (I haven't purchased iMovie HD 
> yet to try 9:16)
>
> Mark Des Cotes
> Systems Manager/Graphic Designer
>
> Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd.
> 3308 Second Street East
> Cornwall Ontario Canada  K6H 6J8
> T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106,  F (613) 932-1052
> www.astroprinting.com
>
>
>
>
> On 3-Nov-06, at 1:44 PM, sb wrote:
>
>> http://www.abtelectronics.com/about/gallery_attractions.php3
>> "plasma windmills"
>>
>> Finish the movie, rotate in QT, re-import into iMovie, add 
>> titles/text,
>> re-export.
>>
>> FCE will do this all very easily (cropping the image, adding really 
>> good
>> looking titles via Boris Title3D, rotating images, etc)
>>
>>  regards,
>>
>>  sb
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/3/06 10:31 AM, "Mark Des Cotes" <mark at astroprinting.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm new to the list, heck, I'm new to digital video as well so you'll
>>> have to pardon my naivety. My manager has purchased a 37 inch LTC TV
>>> that he wants to mount in our front lobby so that we can play a
>>> looped video promoting our various services and specials. He would
>>> like to see a combination of video and still images with text
>>> flashing in and out of the picture,  you know, all that fun stuff.
>>> The task of creating said video has fallen on me. Now since video
>>> creating/editing is not really a business we want to get into we
>>> would prefer not have to spend a fortune on software. Not to worry,
>>> My Mac has lovely little programs on it called iMovie and iDVD which
>>> under normal circumstances would be perfect for what I need. Notice
>>> the mention of "normal circumstances". Here's the catch, the 37 inch
>>> TV will be mounted sideways so that it becomes a tall screen (9:16)
>>> instead of a wide screen (16:9). That's my problem. Filming the video
>>> sideways isn't a problem, neither is rotating still images in
>>> Photoshop. I can combine both of them in iMovie and then rotate the
>>> completed movie in Quicktime to give me a tall video. My problem is
>>> with text. As far as I can tell iMovie will only allow me to type
>>> text horizontally (which would normally be what you'd want) but if I
>>> then turn my video sideways the text would be sideways as well, see
>>> my problem? What options do I have without having to spend thousands
>>> of dollars. Would Final Cut Express or Adobe Premier Elements allow
>>> me to do what I want? Any other suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Mark Des Cotes
>>> Systems Manager/Graphic Designer
>>>
>>> Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd.
>>> 3308 Second Street East
>>> Cornwall Ontario Canada  K6H 6J8
>>> T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106,  F (613) 932-1052
>>> www.astroprinting.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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