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Thomas Moore · May 17th, 2010, 05:43 AM

Shot a video in which the best angles were often rotated see:

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1826/flipf.jpg

1280x720...

I can think of a few ways to rotate it back, but looking for some suggestions on the "best way" keeping the aspect ratio correct and not letter boxing...

Thanks!

Mike Kujbida · May 17th, 2010, 08:21 AM

If you want to see the entire image, then you have no choice but to put up with the rather large black bars that result from doing a rotate on it.
Otherwise, open Pan/Crop on the clip, change the Rotation angle to -90 (or + 90 if needed) and crop (zoom in) as desired.

Thomas Moore · May 17th, 2010, 08:36 AM

Yea, Pan and Crop is the "ways" I had in mind - but was hoping maybe had some other tricks up their sleeve :)

For example, anyway to make me look like I'm farther back? Change the perspective a little bit for example so that they are farther away?

Mike Kujbida · May 17th, 2010, 08:59 AM

What a lot of folks are doing in similar situations (me included), is to place the footage or still on a lower track, add Gaussian blur to it and then place the same footage or still on the upper track.
A blurred border (or anything else) can be added to the rotated footage/still to help it blend in better.

edit: feel free to use anything image-related for the lower track as you're limited only by your imagination and creativity.

Thomas Moore · May 17th, 2010, 09:25 AM

Hrm....

Yea, that is something I should have but didn't think about....

What about track motion - I'm at my day job now so can't try it - but wonder if you could pull the perspective in 3d back some as well and then enlarge to fill in the screen more?

May 17th, 2010, 05:43 AM	#1
Thomas Moore Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Ravenna, OH Posts: 198	Flip Video Shot a video in which the best angles were often rotated see: http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1826/flipf.jpg 1280x720... I can think of a few ways to rotate it back, but looking for some suggestions on the "best way" keeping the aspect ratio correct and not letter boxing... Thanks!

May 17th, 2010, 08:59 AM	#4
Mike Kujbida Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Windsor, ON Canada Posts: 2,770	What a lot of folks are doing in similar situations (me included), is to place the footage or still on a lower track, add Gaussian blur to it and then place the same footage or still on the upper track. A blurred border (or anything else) can be added to the rotated footage/still to help it blend in better. edit: feel free to use anything image-related for the lower track as you're limited only by your imagination and creativity. Attached Thumbnails

May 17th, 2010, 08:21 AM	#2
Mike Kujbida Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Windsor, ON Canada Posts: 2,770	If you want to see the entire image, then you have no choice but to put up with the rather large black bars that result from doing a rotate on it. Otherwise, open Pan/Crop on the clip, change the Rotation angle to -90 (or + 90 if needed) and crop (zoom in) as desired.

May 17th, 2010, 08:36 AM	#3
Thomas Moore Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Ravenna, OH Posts: 198	Yea, Pan and Crop is the "ways" I had in mind - but was hoping maybe had some other tricks up their sleeve :) For example, anyway to make me look like I'm farther back? Change the perspective a little bit for example so that they are farther away?

May 17th, 2010, 09:25 AM	#5
Thomas Moore Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Ravenna, OH Posts: 198	Hrm.... Yea, that is something I should have but didn't think about.... What about track motion - I'm at my day job now so can't try it - but wonder if you could pull the perspective in 3d back some as well and then enlarge to fill in the screen more?