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Way to Rotate Clips 180 Degrees?
Hi All,
I’m wondering if there’s an easy way to rotate clips 180 degrees in the Browser window. I’ve got hundreds of clips that all need to be rotated because they were shot with the Panasonic HVX200 using the Brevin lens adaptor which shoots everything 180 degrees in reverse. In other words, all of my clips look upside down.
I tried opening up a clip and rotating it 180 degrees, copying the clip and then tried ‘pasting attributes’ into another clip in the Browser, but this doens’t seem possible. Seems that one can only do this with a clip once its actually in a timeline. Also tried dragging a rotate effect filter into a bunch of clips that were highlighted in my Browser. Also did nothing.
Does anyone know how to rotate all of my clips at once so that I don’t have to open every single one up separately and manually rotate them?
In advance, thanks for your help!
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6 Replies
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This was posted pretty recently on here – but I’ll repeat it:
1. Drag all your files from the browser into the timeline.
2. Apply the Effects > Perspective > Rotate filter to the first clip. Open that clip in the viewer and change the rotate param to 180 degrees.
3. Copy the first clip.
4. Select all the other clips on the timeline and Paste Attributes (OPT+V).
5. Select Filters checkbox.
6. Select all the clips on the timeline and drag them back into the browser. These clips are now rotated.* * *
Paul Escandon
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Double click on a clip or an entire reel in the browser to load it into the viewer, rotate it in the viewer. Now the entire clip in browser will be rotated.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Hello,
This almost worked. Well, I mean, it did actually work. However, it made duplicates of all of the clips (and rotated them properly) when I placed them back into the browser. I was hoping it would simply rotate the actual clips in the Browser (without making dupes).
Any ideas?
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Put the dupes in a new bin and delete everything else around them.
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[cparkhurst] “I was hoping it would simply rotate the actual clips in the Browser (without making dupes).”
The instructions I gave you did not say anything about dragging the clip back to the browser. I told you to load the clip into the viewer and rotate the darn thing using the motion controls. The clip is already in the browser silly, iff you just click on another one in the Browser, then click on the one you already rotated, you will see that original clip in the Browser is rotated, with no copies…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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If you go back and look at the actual thread that I replied to you’ll see it wasn’t in reference to your suggestion. It was, in fact, referencing Mr. Escandon’s helpful remarks. Silly.
And if you’ll re-read my initial post, you’ll also see that I actually did what you suggested before posting my question. It’s just that I was looking for a way to do this with all clips at once, instead of having to open each one up separately in the Browser.
But, hey, thanks anyway! 😉
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