NODE101 :: Phoenix » plugin http://node101phoenix.org The Phoenix, AZ chapter of Node101, teaching videoblogging, free. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:36:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Turn That Clip http://node101phoenix.org/2007/05/30/turn-that-clip/ http://node101phoenix.org/2007/05/30/turn-that-clip/#comments Wed, 30 May 2007 16:25:39 +0000 Cheryl http://node101phoenix.org/2007/05/30/turn-that-clip/ 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!

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