[Shotwell] Basic video edition : rotation

[Chris Game]

This is a reasonable feature request? For goodness sake people, THIS
IS PHOTO ALBUM SOFTWARE not full featured video editing suite!
Surely the devs have better things to do than add this - sooner or
later these straws will break the camel's back.

I do keep making this same point (sorry!) but I really think Shotwell
is going to loose its way if it gets too bogged down in this creeping
feature swamp.

On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, shotwell-request at lists.yorba.org wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:05:13 -0800
> From: Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org>
> To: shotwell at lists.yorba.org
> Subject: Re: [Shotwell] Basic video edition : rotation
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> On 01/07/2011 12:27 AM, kimaidou wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I am sure I am not the only one who dumly rotate the camera when recording a
>> video, and then needs to turn the laptop 90? to watch the video :).
>>
>> Is it possible to use ffmpeg or mencoder (or another tool supported by
>> shotwell) to rotate the video ? I know such an edition will affect the
>> original video file, as it cannot be done "on the fly".
>
> Actually I think it should be possible to rotate the video image on the
> fly as it's rendered - that would require some computational power, but
> I bet that modern CPUs are plenty capable .
>
> The user might also want to rotate a video file itself. For some video
> formats, it might also be possible to write metadata bits that say that
> the video should be rotated when displayed (just like we can for JPEG
> files).  For other formats, it might be necessary to rewrite the entire
> file to achieve a rotation.
>
>> Any comments on this ? Should I add a ticket in the trac ?
>
> This is a reasonable feature request.  I've filed a ticket:
>
> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3073
>
> adam
>