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    Video clips help please

    Me again in the techie bit looking for advice and assistance.

    I took some video clips on my digital camera of our tango teachers dancing last night. It was at a party so both space and light were limited. I had to turn the camera on its side to get a decent angle. So now I need to turn the image back round to the right way up. Can anyone recommend any (preferably free!) software I could use to do this?

    Is there any software that I could use to lighten the image? And a way of editing the clips in terms of length would be good as well, as they might then be able to be put onto a website.

    TIA.

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    Me again in the techie bit looking for advice and assistance.

    I took some video clips on my digital camera of our tango teachers dancing last night. It was at a party so both space and light were limited. I had to turn the camera on its side to get a decent angle. So now I need to turn the image back round to the right way up. Can anyone recommend any (preferably free!) software I could use to do this?

    Is there any software that I could use to lighten the image? And a way of editing the clips in terms of length would be good as well, as they might then be able to be put onto a website.

    TIA.
    Hi Lynn could you maybe organise another event with more light, more space and only video what you need for a website!!

    Otherwise good luck!

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by under par View Post
    Hi Lynn could you maybe organise another event with more light, more space and only video what you need for a website!!
    Yeah, really helpful! This was a case of an impromptu dance, I just happened to have my camera in my bag, quickly grabbed it and got what I could. The website bit is only an idea, its more that I would like to be able to view and share the clips.

    If I want more I'll have to wait til next summer as they're heading back to Buenos Aires now.

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    Yeah, really helpful! This was a case of an impromptu dance, I just happened to have my camera in my bag, quickly grabbed it and got what I could. The website bit is only an idea, its more that I would like to be able to view and share the clips.

    If I want more I'll have to wait til next summer as they're heading back to Buenos Aires now.
    You know how helpful I can be Lynn

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by under par View Post
    You know how helpful I can be Lynn
    I'm just waiting for someone to post that you can do much better video editing on a Mac...

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    I'm just waiting for someone to post that you can do much better video editing on a Mac...
    Probably – not done enough to know how easily your rotation and brightness problems can be solved, but editing them for length, and adjusting the size and quality is very easy with Quicktime Pro.
    Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    I'm just waiting for someone to post that you can do much better video editing on a Mac...
    Well, actually

    Anyway, not sure how to do it on a PC, but if you emailed it to one of our Mac people on the forum (Ducasi, Azande, ClaireS, Feeling Pink, Tiggerbabe, myself, etc...), we could do it for you easily and all!
    We could then post it to the video section of the 'Photo Gallery'
    Franck.

    There's an A.P.P. for that!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Franck View Post
    Well, actually

    Anyway, not sure how to do it on a PC, but if you emailed it to one of our Mac people on the forum (Ducasi, Azande, ClaireS, Feeling Pink, myself, etc...), we could do it for you easily and all!
    We could then post it to the video section of the 'Photo Gallery'
    Is it only scots who have Macs ????

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by under par View Post
    Is it only scots who have Macs ????
    they're not all Scots , but people with good taste live in Scotland and use Macs

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    turn the camera on its side to get a decent angle. So now I need to turn the image back round to the right way up. .
    Just download it on to the computer. Turn the monitor on it's side............Voila!!

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    I'm just waiting for someone to post that you can do much better video editing on a Mac...
    No real need - I thought that went without saying...

    Quote Originally Posted by under par View Post
    Is it only scots who have Macs ????
    No... but maybe Scotland has a higher proportion of residents who have achieved enlightment.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    Just download it on to the computer. Turn the monitor on it's side............Voila!!
    See what the poor PC folk have to resort to?


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    Re: Video clips help please

    If you use XP then you have prob got Movie Maker installed which is basic but easy to use for editing etc.

    I don't know of any free software but Adobe do a decent video editing package that they may do a free trial of (don't know what it;s called though).

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by Franck View Post
    ....Ducasi, Azande, ClaireS, Feeling Pink, Tiggerbabe, myself, etc...
    What do you call Franck, Ducasi, Azande, etc..... standing in a Cemetery?

    Max Bygraves!

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    If you use XP then you have prob got Movie Maker installed which is basic but easy to use for editing etc.

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    you can down load it here

    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...viemaker2.mspx

    yes it wiil do what you want

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    Re: Video clips help please

    You could always try this nifty bit of software too.

    It's one of the better bits of editing software. Link is for a 30 day trial.

    http://www.download.com/Ulead-VideoS...ml?tag=lst-4-5

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    Re: Video clips help please

    I've used a piece of software called Virtual Dub to do exactly this. Note that it may not as simple as a rotation by 90 degrees - you may want to scale/crop the picture afterwards (because otherwise you will lose a bit of resolution by having to squeeze it into a normal aspect ratio).

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    If you use XP then you have prob got Movie Maker installed which is basic but easy to use for editing etc.
    I have! I didn't even know it was there. I'll need to play about with the clips a bit, and next time I won't turn the camera - but it means I can watch them back without turning the monitor on its side...

    Also playing about with fading in and out etc and I see I can add several clips together.

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    Re: Video clips help please

    there is also a disc called finepix from fujitsu that is easy to get.I use for work every day,just google it to get address and download.

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    Re: Video clips help please

    Quote Originally Posted by under par View Post
    Is it only scots who have Macs ????
    They need them, it's always raining up there....

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