Portions of Movie are UPSIDE DOWN

[elling]

I have downloaded a movie that was originally .FLV and I have converted it to .WMV using Freemake (I want to ultimately play it on a standalone DVD player). It is 9 min. 49 sec. long and generally plays OK except for 5 portions where it has been flipped upside down for about 1 minute (each portion). It begins the right way up and at 1:01 flips upside down for about 60 sec. where it resumes the right way up. This is repeated at 3:03, 5:05, 7:07 and 9:09, all for approx. 60 seconds each time. I want to correct this before burning it to DVD. Is there any good FREE editing software that can do this? I can edit the upside down portions out of the video with Freemake but I want to re-insert them once they have been flipped right side up? I know that Windows Live Movie Maker has a "Rotate" command but it doesn't work for selected portions. What can I do? I am using Windows 7 Pro. Thanks!

P.S. I read in this thread that AviSynth may be able to correct this problem.

[manono]

I have downloaded a movie that was originally .FLV and I have converted it to .WMV using Freemake (I want to ultimately play it on a standalone DVD player).

Why'd you make a WMV if you really want to make a DVD? Wouldn't it make more sense to go direct to DVD?

This flipping, it's in the 'source' flv? Have you tried other players? It only shows up after Freemake gets through with it?

P.S. I read in this thread that AviSynth may be able to correct this problem.

Yes, AviSynth can easily correct the problem.

A=Last
B=A.FlipVertical
ReplaceFramesSimple(A,B,Mappings="[x1 x2] [y1 y2] [z1 z2]")

The letters and numbers represent the first and last frames of each section that has to be flipped over. Replace with the real frame numbers.

[elling]

I used Freemake to stretch the original .flv file and get rid of the black side bars. The flipping is in the original .flv file; I downloaded it again today to verify. The flipping occurs both in Windows Media Player and VLC. I am going to try AviSynth today, wish me luck!

[manono]

...wish me luck!

Good Luck!. And you'll need it and you will have questions. When asking them post your complete script and any error messages you receive when testing the script in VDub.

To use the ReplaceFramesSimple line in the script you'll need the RemapFrames filter by stickboy:

http://avisynth.org/stickboy/

For opening FLVs, it may be best to use FFMS2:

http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegsource/

You load the FFMS2.dll and have something like this as your source filter:

FFVideoSource("Video.flv")

I don't put audio in my scripts and if you do, someone else can show you how.

I used Freemake to stretch the original .flv file and get rid of the black side bars.

You can crop and resize in the script as well. You don't want to make any unnecessary quality-degrading reencodes of your 'source'. I expect it's none to good to begin with.