Fliping a video? Is it possible

[trunksu]

My sister record some video with my camera but she turn the camera and now the video is upside down. Is it possible for to flip it right side up? Can sony vegas do this?

forgot to mention that it was just the middle section of the video.

[celtic_druid]

AVISynth can do it:
flipvertical()
Don't have vegas handy but I am sure that it would be able to do it to.

[junkmalle]

You don't want to flip, you want to rotate 180 degrees.

[edDV]

Movie Maker 2 (free) will rotate 180.
If the cam is MiniDV or Digital 8, import in DV-AVI and save timeline in DV-AVI or record back to the DV camcorder.

[celtic_druid]

flipvertical().fliphorizontal()

Same effect as rotating 180.

[trunksu]

I tried AVISynth and is not easy. I am completly lost. I then tried virtualdub and was able to find a rotate filter but some how I can only manage to flip the whole video and just not part of selection. Is there a gui prog out there?

[celtic_druid]

Something like:
vid = avisource("whatever.avi")
part1 = trim(vid,0,6534)
part2 = trim(vid,6535,8428).flipvertical().fliphorizontal( )
part3 = trim(vid,8429,0)
return part1+part2+part3

opens the avi, splits it into 3 sections, flips the middle one and then joins the parts back together.

[mwkurt]

Vegas can do this very easily. Click on the pan/crop icon at the end of the media event. You will probably have to cut between the scenes that are right side up to just flip the the upside down scene. Anyway, after clicking on the pan/crop button, right click in the window that appears. There you can select "flip vertical". That should ya!
Mark

[northcat_8]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=150504

I guess I should mention more...

You'll need to cut the video apart and only flip the section that is upside down. You'll need a video editing app. Adobe Premiere would be perfect, but I don't know if you have that.

[BarteS]

Shooting the video upside down?

[thor300]

From AviSynth version 2.55 there is a Turn180() function. Might be faster too for all i know.
Shooting upsidedown could be interesting in some cases. I have in some cases turned the cam 90 degrees right, a nice way to avoid zooming out to fit tall objects like persons and also looks good with some very close closeups. Home footage is usually so boring that a few shoots out of the ordinary is called for to wake people up anyway.

[BarteS]

I avoid boring videos by editing them

[DVD_NDN]

I am sure there are going to be people who argue with me on this one, but windows movie maker (came pre-loaded with my windows xp) can do the job pretty freakin easily.
downside? it outputs the file as a wmv. so you just convert that using any one of the tools on the left side bar there, and bammo.
file rotated 180 degrees.

[lordsmurf]

Do this in Premiere, super simple.

[johns0]

In virtualdub use the rotate2 filter and then you can rotate as much or little as you want.Also you can frameserve just the section you flip to your encoder.

[thor300]

DVD_NDN, "it outputs the file as a wmv", thats genious! I love WMV.

[edDV]

DVD_NDN, "it outputs the file as a wmv", thats genious! I love WMV.

WMM 2 will input, process and output in DV-AVI if you pay attention to the menus. MS sets traps to suck you into wmv. Avoid those.

At least its free and will do what he wants.

Almost any other editing program will do this as well. There are just very few that are free. Editing and MPeg2 encoding are where you need to open the wallet.

Note: It is possible to get good transcodes from wmv, but MS and other apps default to highly compressed forms of wmv.

[thor300]

WMV from WMM will **** up the interlacing. I am aware of the DV output function in WMM, but its the slowest ever.
Virtualdub and AviSynth are both free, and fast and no quality loss as frameservers instead of recompressing to DV.

[edDV]

WMV from WMM will **** up the interlacing. I am aware of the DV output function in WMM, but its the slowest ever.
Virtualdub and AviSynth are both free, and fast and no quality loss as frameservers instead of recompressing to DV.

I agree Virtualdub or AviSynth are a better solutions but the learning curve for Joe average is a bit high.