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Will there be video rotation?

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Will there be an option to rotate video? Tilting it clockwise and counter clockwise? How about negative values for the hight and width so it is possible to fake a 3D spin. Might as well throw in a build in 3D spin effect.

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Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph) said : 		#1

I hope rotation will be included. =) I didn't see any way in MLT to handle
rotation yet. But, I also haven't seriously investigated it. We'll get to
it eventually. Thanks!

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Trevor
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> New question #84857 on OpenShot Video Editor:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/openshot/+question/84857
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> Will there be an option to rotate video? Tilting it clockwise and counter
> clockwise? How about negative values for the hight and width so it is
> possible to fake a 3D spin. Might as well throw in a build in 3D spin
> effect.
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Mike Vaughn (mikevaughn) said : 		#2

Given that this is possible in Kdenlive, which also uses the MLT framework as its backend, i would assume this is something we might expect in the foreseeable future (not to sound pushy or presumptuous, of course)? :D

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Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph) said : 		#3

Of course. If Kdenlive does it, then MLT does it... and thus I would expect
it to be included. I just need to find time to email Dan (creator of MLT)
and ask about how rotation works.

Thanks,
-Jonathan

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Contrast <
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> Question #84857 on OpenShot Video Editor changed:
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> Contrast proposed the following answer:
> Given that this is possible in Kdenlive, which also uses the MLT
> framework as its backend, i would assume this is something we might
> expect in the foreseeable future (not to sound pushy or presumptuous, of
> course)? :D
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Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph) said : 		#4

I figured out how to accomplish video rotation. Kdenlive uses the 3dflippo frie0r effect. I tried to get this working, but that filter seems really quirky, and I haven't figured it out yet. For some reason, the frie0r effects have almost zero documentation. I was able to find the source code of this effect, but it was quite complicated and I ran out of time. So... I'll attack this again soon, but I'm defeated for the moment. =)

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Trevor (trevorlangas) said : 		#5

Thanks for the progress report.

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Best Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph) said : 		#6

I've spoken to Dan (the creator of MLT), and he pointed me to another way to accomplish rotation. MLT has a filter called the "affine" filter, which does rotation, skewing, and a few different things like that. So, I'm going to see about implementing this effect. Thanks!

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Trevor (trevorlangas) said : 		#7

Thanks Jonathan Thomas, that solved my question.