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Rotating videos in Quicktime with automator?
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I have a canon digital camera that I use more for short videos than regular pictures. When I tape the videos, I usually rotate my camera at a 90 degree angle so that in the end, when I edit my videos, they end up as a longer 480x640 vertical video.
Now the problem isn't HOW to rotate the videos in quicktime, but is there a faster way of rotating all these videos automatically instead of manually adjusting the settings individually? I have a 2 gig SD card so I can come back with hundreds of short video clips (also doesn't help that my camera has a 30 second limit per video!) and it is such a pain and hassel to select the video, select video properties, select the video tab, and click on the rotate for the adjustment. It is really an ordeal...
So are there any automator experts that know how to write an automator script to do this automatically? If you don't know how to do it, are there any good automator websites where people customize scripts and share them?
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I don't know, and the one time I tried automator I got absolutely nowhere. But you could open one movie, then drag all the others into it (acts like paste), then rotate the result just once.
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wow your solution is unbelievably helpful! it's going to save me so much time in the future. thanks a lot, i had no clue this was possible in quicktime.
and i too got nowhere with automator. does anyone even use automator?!
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Interesting thinking. Before I knew about QuickTime's ability to rotate videos in the properties, it occurred to me to try to find a use for Automator in that - but the way I did it would by no means be faster for you  . I had QT export a movie as a series of pics, then had Automator open them all in Preview and rotate them and then put them all back together again and pasted back in the sound.
So just from that I feel that it could well be possible - if Automator could be set to do all of the actions I described  .
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Originally Posted by herbsman
wow your solution is unbelievably helpful! it's going to save me so much time in the future. thanks a lot, i had no clue this was possible in quicktime.
and i too got nowhere with automator. does anyone even use automator?!
Unfortunately, unless there is already an Automator action that fits what you want to do, you still need to know how to write a script (be it Applescript, Perl, or whatever) to achieve the results you want with Automator. It's another of those apps that has a huge amount of potential, but its first iteration is not good enough of the average user to do more than a few simple things with it. However, in the future you might want to take a look at e.g. AutomatorWorld or the like to see if someone has coded an action that will do what you want.
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