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Katarina Whimsy ([personal profile] sorcyress) wrote2007-09-25 01:41 pm

Bits and pieces

xkcd post really truly is forthcoming, I just need to figure out a way to fix the video first. IMPORTANT QUESTION: If I shot something holding my camera sideways, is there an easy way to take the video and rotate the whole video 90 degrees?

(For reference, I have a macbook with iDVD and iMovie bundled. Help?)

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I wrote a drabble for english class that I liked enough to post in the Kattales. Go read!

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College remains fun. I am slowly making better friends (as opposed to aquantinces). Ria has a scanner which I may attack at some point. I'm trying to get together a RHPS expidition for this Saturday.

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I have gotten back into Neopets in a hella-bad-serious way. By which I mean, I have made an excel spreadsheet and am keeping track of how much money I bring in and where it comes from. Yeeeeeeeahhhh...

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Vegan Pizza is super-delicious. Vegan Baklava is just about the greatest thing I have ever eaten in my life. Boston has one of two vegan pizza parlours in the country --the other one is in Seattle. (Ksatyr and I went on Saturday night and it was AWESOME)

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Free, reasonably intense, yoga classes rock my socks.

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I used too many stars in this post. :(

~Sor
MOOP!

[identity profile] markbark.livejournal.com 2007-09-25 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
xkcd post really truly is forthcoming, I just need to figure out a way to fix the video first. IMPORTANT QUESTION: If I shot something holding my camera sideways, is there an easy way to take the video and rotate the whole video 90 degrees?

Easy? Yes. Free? No.
Go to the Apple site and upgrade to Quicktime Pro ($29 I think)
Open the movie in QuickTime Player,
Choose Window > Show Movie Properties.
In the Properties window, select the video track and click Visual Settings.
To rotate the movie, click one of the rotate buttons.

Is piece of pie, easy as cake! </Boris Badinov voice>

--MAB

[identity profile] werewulf.livejournal.com 2007-09-25 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Whenever *I* try that with Quicktime Pro, I seem to end up with stuttering jittery video that is fine when I left it sideways.

Any guesses? I admit I haven't acctually tried this recently.

Hugs and Howls

[identity profile] markbark.livejournal.com 2007-09-25 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
haven't had any symptoms like that... and I've been rotating lots o' movies I took @ Philmont.

G4 Powerbook, Mac OS 10.3.9, QuickTime 7.2.0

--MAB