Allegedly, on or about 02 August 2016, Matt Morgan sent: > I shot one of the videos in portrait mode. Shotwell brought it in > rotated 90 degrees, and wouldn't rotate it back--the "Rotate" option > seems to be available only for still images, not videos. I can find > discussion online regarding this fact--that Shotwell doesn't offer > manual video rotation--but nothing about the initial rotation upon > import. > > > I was able to use mencoder to rotate it back, but with some loss of > quality it seems. > > > How do I get Shotwell not to do this--any ideas? I have to wonder, did it really rotate it, or is it simply naturally sideways? i.e. On a some cameras, if I rotate the camera and take a photo or video, there's no knowledge that I've rotate the camera, and no data stored with the picture that it's sideways. When the files are viewed, as-is, they look rotated (because, unlike when you're looking at what you're filming, as you're filming it, the viewing screen hasn't been turned at the same time as the camera). This also happens with cameras that are smart enough to recognise a rotated camera, but only do so at the start of a clip (start recording, and then rotate the camera, and they don't get un-rotated each time you twist the camera around). If you view that file, or others, with something else, are they shown sideways until you do something about it? To be honest, I've rarely used shotwell. Importing my photos into some feature-limited database has never seen sensible. Come the next system update, I've got to deal with moving a database over, as opposed to simply keeping a collection of picture files. And, at least on my older systems, shotwell is really considered a *photo* manager. *But* it does say that it supports video files handled by gstreamer. So rotation of video probably depends on those codecs. For playing videos, I tend to use SMPlayer (a GUI for mplayer), and you can rotate video playback on the fly. It just changes the playback rendering, without modifying the files. It *can* remember the settings that you've used during playback, per file, but it stores them in its own settings files. It is a feature that *you* control, though, it does not automatically orient video the right way up for you. To be clear: Most video recording systems, whatever the actual camera is, take the picture in landscape format (wider than tall), and record it in that fashion (*some* mobile phones being an exception). If you twist the camera around, the pictures and recordings are still handled in that manner, all that changes is some extra data is recorded that says which way up the camera was. The intention being that the player will twist the picture around in the opposite direction, to compensate. I'm yet to come across a video player that automatically does that. Fun and games ensue when you try and view these videos on things like a tablet which has its own auto-rotate feature. You turn the screen around to view a twisted video the right way, it then rotates its own display around because you rotated the tablet. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Windows (TM) [Typhoid Mary]. They refuse to believe that there's anything wrong with it, but everyone else knows Windows is a disease that spreads. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
