Please Help - New user

Karen

Newbie Joined: Dec 16, 2008 12:40 Messages: 1 Offline

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Dec 16, 2008 12:43

Hi all,

I am a new user to PowerDirector, and new at editing video in general. I got my video into powerdirctor, but it was filmed with the camera on it's side, so now my video is sideways. Does anyone know how to rotate a video?

Thanks so much!
Karen

Ed71

Senior Member Location: Dorset, United Kingdom Joined: May 17, 2008 14:32 Messages: 207 Offline

Dec 16, 2008 13:03

Place Video Clip on the timeline
Go to 'EFFECT ROOM' (second symbol down on upper left hand side)
Scroll down to 'ROTATE CANVAS'
Drag and drop effect onto video clip on timeline
Select 'EFFECT' from buttons which appear above timeline
Select how many degrees you want to rotate from the drop down menu
Press white cross to close effect options
When look in pre-view should be rotated

When I quickly tried it; rotated picture did not fill the frame; may have to produce it then put the produced clip in a PIP track to resize it?

Unless others have got a better solution??

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pjc

Senior Member Location: Aus Joined: Sep 12, 2008 03:48 Messages: 262 Offline

Dec 16, 2008 14:14

Quote: When I quickly tried it; rotated picture did not fill the frame; may have to produce it then put the produced clip in a PIP track to resize it?

Unless others have got a better solution??

Just put the clip in the PIP track to start with. Then you can rotate, re-size etc to overscan it to the desired amount.