[SuperHard]

I have some video clips that I captured using my digital camera, and not thinking, I held the camera at 90degrees, so my video footage was recorded at a 90degree angle.
How can I rotate it back, and make it look normal again.
I found other posts and the solution was to use QTPro to rotate it 90deg, back to normal. I did that, and in QT the footage looks normal, which I thought was great. However, when I place the clip in iMovie, the footage looks squashed. I understand the the video was recorded at 640x480 and now that it is rotated it is played back at 480x640, hence the squashed appearance. However, QT compensated for that by narrowing the image. How can I do something similar so that the clip looks normal in iMovie. I also have Final Cut Express and I tried its rotate filter, but I still get the squashed look upon playback.
Thanks for your help!

[Jacke]

You can try resizing the video in QT Pro. Get properties (Cmd-J), select the video track, size, and there should be a button you press so you're able to set the size/aspect ratio. When you press it the corners on the movie turn red, grab one and drag it to your liking. Of course I don't know how well iMovie respects the QT aspect ratio setting on DV material...

[Uncle Skeleton]

iMovie responds to the setting just fine. The problem is iMovie (and FCE if I understand the gossip I've heard) is using the DV codec/file format, which requires a certain resolution. When you import a movie with a different resolution (either natively or because of edits like this one), iMovie will scale it to the requirement.

So your options are to matte the source movie to be 4:3 instead of 3:4 (either by adding black bars or cropping with what QTPro mysteriously calls a "mask"), or think about why you actually need iMovie and realize it's not necessary. What were you planning to do in iMovie?