I am now using Ulead MovieStudio 8.0 SE DVD to edit my movies, but I
can't seem to find an option for rotating clips. My camera (digital
camera) gives me mpeg1 files (640x480 30fps).

Will I have to do the rotating in VirtualDub and at the same time
convert the files to .avi, or is there some other clever way of doing it?

Thanks for the help
Rusty
Norway

"Rusty" wrote in message
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I am now using Ulead MovieStudio 8.0 SE DVD to edit my movies, but I can't
seem to find an option for rotating clips. My camera (digital camera) gives
me mpeg1 files (640x480 30fps).

Will I have to do the rotating in VirtualDub and at the same time convert
the files to .avi, or is there some other clever way of doing it?

Thanks for the help
Rusty
Norway

VS. dub can rotate the files If you recorded in portrait format

Yes, but then I would have to save them in .avi. Will that give loss

Trev wrote:
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I am now using Ulead MovieStudio 8.0 SE DVD to edit my movies, but I can't
seem to find an option for rotating clips. My camera (digital camera) gives
me mpeg1 files (640x480 30fps).

Will I have to do the rotating in VirtualDub and at the same time convert
the files to .avi, or is there some other clever way of doing it?

Thanks for the help
Rusty
Norway


VS. dub can rotate the files If you recorded in portrait format

"Rusty" wrote in message
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Yes, but then I would have to save them in .avi. Will that give loss

Not if you save them as uncompressed AVIs.

AVI in itself just tells your operating system which program to use in order
to open the file (much the same way XLS tells your o/s to open the file with
Excel).

There is a code within the AVI file which describes the format of the video
it contains, the "codec" that was used. If you (re)compress video, you will
generally suffer some loss. There are lossless codecs out there, such as
HuffyUV, but generally speaking the higher quality compression and/or higher
bitrate you use, the less noticeable the loss, but the longer the processing
time and storage overhead.

Uncompressed is not really a codec as it doesn't compress or need
decompressing (I'm not even sure it's an installable module), but it still
gets called a codec. It _is_ lossless, but 640x480 @30fps @24bpp will give
you over 26 MB per second.

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Trev wrote:
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I am now using Ulead MovieStudio 8.0 SE DVD to edit my movies, but I
can't
seem to find an option for rotating clips. My camera (digital camera)
gives
me mpeg1 files (640x480 30fps).

Will I have to do the rotating in VirtualDub and at the same time
convert
the files to .avi, or is there some other clever way of doing it?

VS. dub can rotate the files If you recorded in portrait format

Yes, but then I would have to save them in .avi. Will that give loss

All of the common formats are lossy. Don't sweat that. At a sufficiently
high bit rate, you can save without ANY degradation.

Frankly, moderate-bit-rate MPEG4 formats (such as Divx) are about as good as
high-bit-rate MPEG2. So save with Divx. Do your edits. Then transcode to
your target format of choice.