Ok, this is cool, and I wish I’d known about it during my Videoblogging Class last semester. I just found out about Turn Clip, a free iMovie plugin that can rotate a video clip 90, 180 or 270 degrees. Why is this cool? Because a lot of novice video bloggers are using their digital cameras to shoot video. We’re used to turning the camera 90 degrees to get a portrait shot. But when you do that with video, what you get is a sideways video clip. With Turn Clip and iMovie, you can now rotate the clip to the proper orientation. The plugin has other nice features as well: setting a background color, cropping the clip, an opacity setting, and more. And it’s free. That rocks!

One caveat seems to be that iMovie may distort the clip a bit with its internal codecs, but there’s a fix for that, too - the Aspect Ratio plugin. Also free.

Heck, looks like we should all just thoroughly explore iMoviePlugins.com - it looks like it’s full of great stuff.

A jaunty bow and deep tip of my hat to Sunny of Wild Food Plants for posting about this to the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group. Share and enjoy!