UPDATE: Pitivi's development version solved my problem. I was aware that it had effects added recently by Thibault Saunier. I got that from git, compiled, found the Flipper effect, used it to rotate the content, and voila. A victory for Pitivi, Gstreamer, and simple interfaces.
I cannot find a piece of Free Software that can actually successfully rotate a video 90° degrees and I give up. I'm tired of struggling with mencoder and ffmpeg to try to preserve quality, synchronisation, and get rotation. Given that there actually is a lot of good software written to handle everything I'd like to do, I'm baffled that after 8 years of using Linux, none of it seems more usable than it was 8 years ago. I know I should file bugs or write code to solve it, but right now I'm just tired.
Well, sort of victory. :P
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Note to anyone reading this:
ReplyDeleteAs of this comment OpenShot (http://www.openshotvideo.com/) has been a FAR superior video editor compared to Pitivi. It's still intuitive, but allows for finer grain control, and has lots of effects (though slo-mo still lacks sound).
However, Richard had to do some sort of weird techno-magic to get it to work on my computer. Perhaps he will enlighten as to his secrets if it does not work for you.
It didn't require much. I don't remember what I did. I think Pitivi's greatest fault is its instability. :D
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