Clip rotation

I took some video with an iPhone4s (no laughing please, I know this is the Pro part of the community but I don't pretend to be one! It's my only HD recording medium!).
As an experiment, I rotated the phone 90 degrees. The clip was brought into events, but as 1080 x 1920 instead of 1920 x 1080, in other words, on its side.
So, I thought, seeing as all the pixels are present and correct, it would be an easy matter to rotate it..... not so! It rotates the video, and ends up cropping off edges at either side.
How do I rotate it back to 1920 x 1080? I am obviously missing something very simple here....

Thanks for the quick reply!
The "project" is normal landscape widescreen. One clip has come in to the events / timeline as portrait, with a size of 1080 x 1920 instead of 1920 x 1080.
The odd thing is, the actual subject of the video is also rotated.... in other words, if it was flipped back to landscape it would look normal. As it is people are walking vertically instead of horizontally.
When I tried to rotate it, it did, but when horizontal the ends were cropped off either side.... just as though you'd tried to rotate a Letter Size portrait photo on a portrait sheet of Letter Size paper.... I know this isn't very clear!
I want to try and rotate the video back to landscape without losing anything. I have no idea why it came in rotated in the first place.....

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hi to all,
I'm a beginner with flash 8 and I've just a problem:
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When the instance is on the stage I convert it on a clip and
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next to convert it), the problem is that the image (and also the
simbol) loose its quality (I can see the aliasing effect).
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I must to rotate the image for a rotate-zoom effect...
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You haven't put the code on a FRAME. You have put it on a
MovieClip instance.
Make sure you are on the stage.
Make sure that you don't have anything selected.
Make sure you click the frame in the timeline.
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"Actions - Frame"
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So I'm kinda new to flash and whatnot, probably not nearly as
good as half you people with the scripting and I donno what half of
things you say are.. and yeah.. but I'll learn one day. :]
Anyways.. so I want to use the eraser tool to erase a
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Ok - let's go step by step:
Re-re wrote:
> In flash CS3 there's an eraser tool that lets you erase
things, but doesn't let
> you erase graphics from what I can see.
"Graphics" is a pretty general term - it can mean anything
from vectors to bitmaps to symbol
instances. I have to assume that you are referring to
imported graphics. Please clarify.
If you are finding the eraser tool does not erase "graphics"
then you are either trying to erase a
bitmap or an instance.
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to vectors) before using the eraser
tool. More importantly, if you are trying to erase part of a
bitmap, it is probably more
advantageous to go back to the original source file and edit
it in your graphics editor and
re-import into flash.
If it is an instance of a Graphic symbol, double click the
symbol to enter Edit Mode - then use the
eraser tool (assuming the artwork inside this symbol is
vector art. If a bitmap refer to the
previous steps.
>
> But I have this button that looks like an eraser, and
when it's clicked I want
> the eraser to swipe across the page and erase it,
leaving it white from behind,
> but sence the ereaser tool in flash doesn't seem to let
me erase graphics, I
> was trying to figure out how to exicute my idea.
Here's where my confusion increases - this is a different
issue from the first one right? The eraser
tool and this eraser button are 2 different things? Let's
assume this eraser button is something you
made ok? But your last scentence still confuses me - what
does the Flash eraser tool have to do with
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>
> Also, I have a movie clip with a botton on it, and the
movie clip rotates
> consantly. I want it to stop rotating when I hover over
the botton. How do I do
> that?
Give the MC an instance name and target it on rollOver of the
button:
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I've looked around the forum (probably not hard enough) and
I'm still looking, but I haven't seen this question pop up
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rotate around a static focal point while also being able to move
up, down, left, right, without changing the point on the screen in
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quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
Redux112358 wrote:
> I've looked around the forum (probably not hard enough)
and I'm still looking,
> but I haven't seen this question pop up anywhere. My
problem is that I would
> like to have a movie clip rotate around a static focal
point while also being
> able to move up, down, left, right, without changing the
point on the screen in
> which it rotates from. I'm trying to find ways to
clarify what I mean, but I'm
> having trouble right now. If this doesn't make sense,
then let me know. I will
> try and rephrase it better. Thank you.
how about some drawing using or screen shot of something like
that ?
Can't really picture what is that you try to do.
Or perhaps something like that in real life to take sample
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Okay, heres my real life example. Take a pen/cil and paper.
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Objective:
(As shown in image attached)
I have a Movieclip with a static Shape on Stage ( Let´s say ... a star)
I would like to load a image(img1) , then i would be able to, rotate, zoom , and pan the image(img1).
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