Quick (hopefully easy) question about rotating video...

I'm going to be shooting some video soon that I will later be editing with FCP. I'm going to shoot the video on a Canon Vixia HF10 (AVCHD) camcorder.
In the situation I'll be shooting, with the mount I'll be using, it would be much easier for me to shoot this video with the camera fully upside-down.
If I shoot the video fully upside down, can I easily rotate it 180 degrees in FCP with no loss of quality?
Thanks!

An interesting thing about video that is shot upside down is the ballistics of the camera movement can be weirdly disconcerting. For instance, if it's a helmet- or wing-style mount, pans and tilts just feel odd.
As Eric suggests, flipping the image 180 degrees is easy but practice and evaluate.
bogiesan

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The only way I know how to do this in FCP is I double click a clip in the sequence, it loads into the viewer, I go to the Motion Tab and then I can adjust the Scale, which is cool. But then I'm left with the Distort section to adjust position (and aspect if need be). In the Distort section there are 8 numeric fields of info to figure out and fill out just to get one clip in a different position correctly.
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I searched 'Resizing Video' and there was too many unrelated results to a really simple question.
That's because it's not a simple question at all and yet every one of those threads was related to the OP's question. As you discovered, there are lots of ways to interpret "resize," during capture, editing, effects, output, viewing, encoding, printing. But the solution was even simpler than you thought. All you had to do was open the manual or the online help system. Start taking the manuals to the gym with you. FCP is not Premiere. You're going to hate FCP, you're going to love FCP but it will never behave like Premiere beyond the elements of the functional paradigm. Forget Premiere.
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Yes. LOL You word it so much nicer!
lol...
if customer support actually does help, for a nice price, you will be -my new saviour-!
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to no: 2
In iMovie as standard - NO
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I had bios version KH0, and MSI live update found KH1, i downloaded and flashed successfully (DOS window said please restart and press any key to exit) so i did, restarted my computer, and MSI live update utlity and gpu-z and MSI afterburner are all reporting the same bios version i had with the KH0, version 70.10.17.00.01 & date November 09, 2010
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version 70.10.17.00.01
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& date November 09, 2010
this is GPU release date, not BIOS date
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MSI live update is not picking up the update again, so my question is, how do i know if it flashed correctly
Get this: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=147603.0;attach=7931
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since the bios date and version remained the same?
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I've made a few movies here and there in the original iMovie, have made a fair amount of home movies using FCE. I have 20 years worth of videos scattered around on HI-8 formatting and some videos I downloaded from a hand held digital cheapo-movie cam. I'm to the point of trying to figure out the big picture on importing, structuring, storing, and sharing these files between iMovie, FCEHD 3.5.1, mobileme, my iPhone, etc.
I'm now wanting to start uploading movies to gallery.me.com. I started doing some of this before I got cancer last year. I'm basically restarting this whole process now that I'm beyond the rigors of chemotherapy and I'm trying to make a systematic approach to managing video files and already made movies. I have a lot of questions and would appreciate any insight you can offer in this discussion forum or if you recommend I copy this over to another discussion forum. I'm not sure to even begin hot to explain all this, so be patient as I try to start this process.
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I notice that iMovie has many exporting/sharing options in its menu. Are they really any different/better/worse than what I have with quicktime Pro 7? Should I even try to utilize iMovie at all or simply go with the capture option on FCE? I at least can find the files and organize them with FCE.
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Hi everyone! I have a really quick question:
I'm making a cartoon movie at 30 fps. I've split up my
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symbols. I want the symbols to be as efficient and "right sized" as
possible. So, as far as playback is concerned, what would you
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Make 1 symbol with 5 layers and 50 frames... (to be used by
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OR
Make 5 symbols with 1 layer and 50 frames?? (to be used all
at once)
Hopefully, my question is not too confusing. I'm basically
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smaller symbols at once.
It's important to me because eventually i could have all 7 of
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large sized symbols at once or 35 smaller symbols at once
The symbols are all mostly graphic symbols. And, when i'm
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Thank you for the feedback in advance!!! :)
Frank

I really don't understand 100% what you are asking - when you
say "large" what do you mean? file
size or scale? And why would it matter? And what does "at
once" mean? On the timeline at the same
time? If so...why is that an issue?
What do you want to do?
If you are exporting to video then the issue of "slowdown and
lag" is off the table as video is a
fixed-frame rate format.
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
Fr8TrainAnim8tor wrote:
> Hi everyone! I have a really quick question:
>
> I'm making a cartoon movie at 30 fps. I've split up my
cartoon character's
> body parts and I've made them into graphic symbols. I
want the symbols to be as
> efficient and "right sized" as possible. So, as far as
playback is concerned,
> what would you suggest I do:
>
> Make 1 symbol with 5 layers and 50 frames... (to be used
by itself)
> OR
> Make 5 symbols with 1 layer and 50 frames?? (to be used
all at once)
>
> Hopefully, my question is not too confusing. I'm
basically asking what's
> better to do: use one large symbol by itself or many
smaller symbols at once.
>
> It's important to me because eventually i could have all
7 of my cartoon
> characters on stage at once which would mean using 7
large sized symbols at
> once or 35 smaller symbols at once
>
> The symbols are all mostly graphic symbols. And, when
i'm done, my library
> will be containing hundreds of symbols.
>
> Note: I'll be converting the movie to video format so
internet loading time
> isn't so much my concern as is general playback and
avoiding "slowdown". I want
> to avoid lag at all costs.
>
> Thank you for the feedback in advance!!! :)
>
> Frank
>

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I understand that I can send picture messages via email, and I have been doing so successfully. However, some friends will be traveling internationally and we would like to be able to send pictures back and forth.
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