Rotating a QT movie in Rev

Stephen King st.king42 at ntlworld.com
Tue Feb 15 13:18:22 EST 2005


Sounds perfect Trevor,

I'll give it a go.

Many thanks
Steve

>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know if its possible to rotate a QT movie using Rev. We 
>> recently had to take some video using a camera sideways orientation - 
>> so I either have to rotate the video 90 degrees or turn the monitor 
>> over! I am sure I have read somewhere that QT Pro can do this, but I 
>> don't really really have a use for pro and the player normally does me 
>> fine.
> 
> The beta of the EnhancedQT external allows you to do this thanks to 
> some sample code provided by Brian Yennie.  If you download the beta 
> from <http://mangomultimedia.com/developer/revolution/enhancedqt.html> 
> there are docs included with it.  Under "Movie Manipulation" you will 
> find qtRotateMovie.  The command returns the newWidth,newHeight in the 
> result() function which you need to use to set the new rect for the 
> player object after calling the command.  If I remember correctly I 
> still need to make a couple of tweaks to it before I release 1.0 so if 
> you run into any problems let me know.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Multimedia
> trevor at mangomultimedia.com



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