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What are you selecting?

After doing about 8 to 10 it gives up.

"it"?
Are you using PhotoNow to reposition the images or are you using a Magic Motion feature within PD7?

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Dafydd

Dafydd,

"it" = PD7.

To rotate the photo in the Library I am right clicking on it and selecting "Rotate (clockwise)" usually. This is where PD7 gives up after rotating 8 to 10 photos.

I only found out by chance that editing the photo in PhotoNow that it automatically rotates the photo so that it is upright and will save it like that if you change it in any way.

I am not using magic motion.

Hope that helps.

Phil. Phil
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Hi Phil -

Why not rotate the photos before putting them in the library? I mean - make sure they're up the right way before you even think about PD7.

When I'm using a large number of images, I usually do all the photo editing & file renaming first (so they land "in order" in the library)... that's partly because it drives me nuts fiddling around re-ordering photos on a squibby little timeline when I can hardly see the things!

Your first post indicated that you were engaged in some kind of battle of wits with PD7. My suggestion would be a useful battle tatctic!

Cheers -

Tony
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Hi 7Phil7,

I agree that it is probably a good idea to complete your rotations before importing to the PD7 library. Here’s a technique (that I just re-tested to confirm), that might save you some time.

Let’s say you have a folder titled “Christmas Images”, where all 34 images need to be rotated.
- In My Documents > My Pictures, open this folder (I use the Thumbnails View setting), and left click on the first image to highlight it.
- Then, while holding down the Shift key (thanks to Adrian for teaching me that trick), left click on the last image. Now all the images will be highlighted.
- Right click on the first image, and choose one of the Rotate options from the menu. You will now see that “all” of those highlighted images have been rotated with that one command, and you can now import all those rotated “Christmas Images” using PD7’s “Import Folder” function.

Pre-rotating before importing to PD7, translates into one less thing that PD7 has to process and deal with.
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Cranston thanks for the useful tip! I knew about the multiple highlighting with the shift key, but I didn't know you could rotate images that way. I'm willing to bet that this trick is faster than asking PD to perform the rotation in the rendering stage which will lessen the overall rendering time. Q9300 2.5 GHz
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James,

PD7 doesn't render a horizontal image upright - it leaves it horizontal - I just found one that I missed!


On the subject of Rotating images prior to importing into PD7 library, if you import a whole lot of mixed shots like I did, the best way to rotate many at once is to hold the 'Control' key down and click on as many as you can that need the clockwise rotation and they will all rotate. Then do the anticlockwise ones.

It is ok to use the 'Shift' key if there are a whole row(s) of images that need rotating the same way.

Phil. Phil
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