From: Michael Siemon on
I'm looking for some way of correcting "mis-leveled" video footage -- my
perspective on the viewscreen was skewed, and the resulting image is
"tilted". Rotations in multiples of 90 degrees are common (e.g.,
built-in to iMovie). There are also "features" (e.g. in Final Cut
Express) to animate an image by "rotating it" arbitrary amounts as a
continuous visual "effect". Neither is what I want, and various google
searches don't turn up anything.

Are there plug-ins for Final Cut that would do this? Is there some
reference on HD video file format, or more to the point, QuickTime .mov
format, that would allow me to program an arbitrary translation (and
subsequent crop to standard size) on this footage?

Help!??!
From: Warren Oates on
In article
<mlsiemon-091E83.14500813042010(a)c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au>,
Michael Siemon <mlsiemon(a)sonic.net> wrote:

> I'm looking for some way of correcting "mis-leveled" video footage -- my
> perspective on the viewscreen was skewed, and the resulting image is
> "tilted". Rotations in multiples of 90 degrees are common (e.g.,
> built-in to iMovie). There are also "features" (e.g. in Final Cut
> Express) to animate an image by "rotating it" arbitrary amounts as a
> continuous visual "effect". Neither is what I want, and various google
> searches don't turn up anything.
>
> Are there plug-ins for Final Cut that would do this? Is there some
> reference on HD video file format, or more to the point, QuickTime .mov
> format, that would allow me to program an arbitrary translation (and
> subsequent crop to standard size) on this footage?
>
> Help!??!

You can arbitrarily rotate clips in FCP. I haven't used it, but I've
played with it. Cropping of course is easy.
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