consuella,

Can VLC Media Player also re-save (into an output file) the altered video that it is playing such that the changes are permanent for anyone viewing it on any other player?

HMarx,

"Can VLC Media Player also re-save (into an output file) the altered video..."

Most decent players can rotate video. It's up to the player to decide how it displays the video initially, & whether or not it obeys flags in the video saying in effect "this side up". You can set those flags using ffmpeg without re-encoding -- otherwise the only way to change the actual orientation is to re-encode, which will always lose some quality. If that quality loss doesn't bother you, then Video Rotator will work, or you can use VLC:
wiki.videolan[.]org/Transcode/

mike,

Thanks, that's the info I was looking for that I did not see mentioned on the VLC Media Player "features" page.

Vinai Kitcharoen, try again using copy and paste as it worked just fine for me and did not attempt any internet server validation so that can't be a problem. maybe you used a O instead of the 0 or some other typo.

But not if you're an XP dinosaur

Ken, it also does not check the return status of the conversion and assumes it was successfull even if conv.exe crashes because it won't run on versions of windows before windows 7. A primitive FFMPEG GUI that offers the bare minimum of settings and no sanity checking on the tasks it's asked to do.

Nissepelle, The registration key is in Readme.

Lau, the need to convert a .MOV file to any other container format is not based on the fact it's being moved to a WIndows 10 machine since there are players that happily play .MOV files without change under WIndows based systems. You may need to convert the video to a different container format and codec if you plan on playing the movie file on a device that has restrictions on the types of files and codecs it can play, but that is really the only legitimate reason to waste power and time re-encoding a .MOV video to say an .MKV or .MP4 file. In my opinion... of course.

Su James L, good question... If you add a folder of videos they all will get rotated the same way you set the selector to and with the same bit rate and the same output format.... there is NO way to configure individual files rotation, bitrate or output file type or output location when operating in batch mode. And yes that is a serious design omission.

Vinai Kitcharoen, in Readme file.

Peter Blaise, picasa.google.com: "We’ve decided to retire Picasa in order to focus on a single photo service in Google Photos "

Peter Blaise, Google retired Picassa around 2016. The last version has already fallen behind and some aspects already no longer function. No point in using long-abandoned software.

Peter Blaise, So your only comment to a company offering their software for review is to schill someones else's software and in your incredible rush to do so (comment #2 at this writing) you didn't even bother to review the software you suggested (abandoned)

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[ Ken ],

FREE Google Picasa for Mac and Windows ( with versions all the way back to out XP fellow GOTD ) are available from the file sharing site like FilePuma, FileHippo, FileHourse, Archice. org and so on.

The latest version for Windows computers is Picasa 3.9.141 Build 259

The latest version for Mac computers is Version 3.9

The ONLY function that Google eliminated is uploading to Google Picasa Web / Google Photos, but independent add ins for uploading to Flickr are functional.

Google is focusing on CLOUD apps, and abandoning LOCAL programs as much as possible, but their LOCAL programs still work just fine.
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[ Dave ],

Yet, FREE Google Picasa works just fine at rotating and resaving videos, the offering of today's GOTD otherwise NOT FREE program.

AND, FREE Google Picasa also does so much more, such that I use it daily for:

- screen grabs,

- editing for social media illustrations,

- importing the day's shoot DIRECTLY from phones and cameras and camera cards, automatically putting them in date-directories by EXIF,

- screen-saver slide shows of our photo collections, including collections still on web,

- rotate photos and videos,

- optimize exposure and sharpness and other default or custom adjustments in batches across an entire folder,

- convert to filtered black and white in batches across an entire folder, I do it twice, once with a green filter, and once with a red filter,

- adding fill flash effects after the fact to underexposed images,

- making collages,

- face recognition, Rolodex creation of folks, emailing directly via GMail,

- scan images from TWAIN sources,

- the image storage uses native Windows file structure so all other programs can work on the same images in the same order, too,

- ORIGINALS are never changed, only scripted to your choices of straighten, crop, auto-expose, sharpen, and tons of other controls, and if you want to use the results outside FREE Google Picasa, simply export them, the ORIGINALS stay intact,

- more, more, more, endless, I have not discovered everything FREE Google Picasa can do.

ALL across our current 40,000+ and growing image archive of raw and JPEG and BMP and TIFF and PNG from film scans, print scans, and direct digital capture, including images downloaded from the web that aren't mine but that I want to study and appreciate.

And I use FREE Google Picasa on customer computers to reorganize their "all over the disk" random picture non-collections into ONE chronological archive according to EXIF date taken, I turn on the slide show screen saver, and watch my customers melt in appreciation and awe at finally getting to see, all in one place, ALL of their precious photos.

I even walk around their house and take photos of their old print photos and instantly import them into FREE Google Picasa.

For invalids, I also photograph their open cabinets around the kitchen, house, basement, and attic so they can see their storage of materials, and so that helpers know where to find stuff without having to re-purchase needed items like detergent and other consumables, their entire house contents on a screen-saver slide show to remind them of where they live and what's stored in there.

FREE.
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The ONLY function that Google eliminated is uploading to Google Picasa Web / Google Photos, but independent add ins for uploading to Flickr are functional.

Google is focusing on CLOUD apps, and abandoning LOCAL programs as much as possible, but their LOCAL programs still work just fine.

Please do share
( a ) what other features and benefits that you think FREE Google Picasa can no longer do, and
( b ) what competitive FREE or even FEE programs do equally well, or better.

Thanks for exploring this.
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[ R Singh ],

( a ) We often offer alternatives here at GOTD,especially FREE alternatives.

( b ) My experience of the software on offer today is no different from others -- horrible misbehavior, as others have noted.

You are welcome.
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Peter Blaise,
If you do all these things daily you must be kept very busy. How do you find time to write a comment?

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[ Zen ],

Multiple computers.

( Hence my frustration with single-PC-tethered licenses rather than licenses for a single person to use wherever they are, more like a book or music -- copy and use them for your own personal use as much as you like. )
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Why would someone want this? Because millions of numbnuts regularly shoot video with their cell phones in the portrait (vertical alignment) position, somehow forgetting that most video is watched on computer and television screens which are horizontally aligned in the landscape position. Video recorded in portrait mode can play back 'on its side' on a computer monitor or TV if not rotated. thus making a program which rotates it 90º or 270º very useful.

As far as 'flipping' the video, that means simply reversing the image, as in a mirror. Horizonal flipping means right and left are reversed, but up remains up and down remains down. Vertical flipping means up and down are reversed but left remains left and right remains right.

Where would this be useful? I've noticed that when using the front facing camera on my cell phones (as you would for a 'selfie' pic), the resulting image is flipped horizontally. If there is something written - eg: a sign in the background, it will be reversed as it would in a mirror. To make the image appear as it would have to others present, the image needs to be horizontally flipped. If the same happens when video is shot with the front camera, that would need to be horizontally flipped to not be reversed from the way things actually appeared.

You would likely have to combine the two functions if someone shot selfie video on their cell phone front camera in portrait position and you wanted to play it back on a computer or TV screen. First you would rotate the image 90 or 270º to put it upright in a landscape frame, then flip it horizontally to get rid of the 'mirror' effect.

I hope this clarifies for you how the program would be used and why it will be useful to many people.

There's a video I took that shows sideways because the phone was in portrait when I pressed record but after that I was recording in landscape. I'm going to see if I can use this to fix it.

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[ Bob ],

People record videos on the phones sideways.

Alternative: FREE Google Picasa allows rotating a video and re-saving it as a copy.

This software offers some additional tools.
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Joe Blow, thanks. I've done that. Will give this a try.

Joe Blow,
Thank you for taking the time to teach me this. I never even realized it!

Or you can lie in bed and watch it sideways.