Question on Video orientation in Quicktime

Question

My wife's camera, a Kodak EasyShare C875, saves its movies as quicktime movies.
90% of the time, this is fine.
However, she has one where she put the camera on its side to take the video with a 'long' view top to bottom.
All we want to do is change the orientation. Does QT pro do this? Can I download it? It just seems to want to 'ship' to me.
Are there any other editors out there that can do this?
I'm pretty frustrated.
Jim

Answer 1

Yes, that video size will work on iPods (that support video, of course), I have several 320x240 video Podcasts on my iPod Classic and iPod Touch. More important is the rest of the specification for video.
I'm not an expert on this, but typically the common problem seen on these forums is that a video Podcast will not transfer to an iPod because it's not in the correct format. There is a conversion facility (in iTunes) for videos, but my advice is don't rely on that, because users do not always succeed with the conversion, for various reasons.
The size is okay, in fact you will see that 640 by 480 is mentioned. But it's all the additional encoding, frame rate, audio etc. I've clipped the following from the iPod Classic specifications:
H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
As I said, I don't fully understand these specifications, partly because I don't produce video Podcasts, but hopefully the specs above are familiar to you in the programme you use and that I have partly answered your question. Perhaps someone else may chip in with comments.
Good luck.
Phil