Useless rotate in QT pro

I have the common problem of needing to rotate video shot the wrong way in my digital camera so I bought QT pro (I'd always wondered what you might use it for). The problem is it rotates the whole movie not just the data within the frame - if I now try to import it into iMovie it gets streched to fit the horizontal frame. I tried importing into Premiere on a friend machine ad get the same result.
This is soooo annoying. I cant believe there is no rotate in iMovie or iPhoto. Now I've bought QT pro just for this feature and the "i" apps can't use the format.
All I want to do is get some footage of my little boy onto a dvd for the Grandparents!
Any suggestions other that learn to shoot video properly?

Shane, welcome to these discussions.
When you rotate a movie all you are really doing is swapping the height and width. 320X240 becomes 240X320. Your image is now orientated correctly but is no longer the correct 4:3 aspect ratio.
The fix is somewhat easy. Add a new 4:3 image to the entire movie.
Create an image file (all black) sized to the proper aspect. Open this file using QT Pro. Select all (Command-A) and Copy (Command-C).
Switch to your new rotated movie, select all and choose Add to Movie & Scale (Edit menu).
Open the Movie Properties window, select this new video track and set its "Layer" to -1 (minus one). This will keep your new video "on top".
Use the Save As menu, rename the file and save as "self-contained". Or "Export" the new movie to DV Stream (.dv) and it will be ready to use with iMovie.
You'll have "black bars" (depending on how you position the video track over the image track). But your movie will not get "squished" when used in iMovie.

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This is a weird one, but here goes.
I'm using a Canon SD550, which makes AVI movies. I've got a couple of such movies where the camera was held vertically rather than horizontally. They don't display correctly in iPhoto or Quicktime.
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Steve,
I haven't tried rotating with QT Pro, but I do have a suggestion for you. My Canon came with ImageBrowser. I don't normally use it because iPhoto is superior. However, if you select a video clip in IB you can open it inside the Video Edit task. It has several functions to edit the clip, including actually rotating it. (By actually I mean that it's not just a display setting.) If you have this app, you could rotate the video clip before importing into iPhoto. I would expect that iPhoto would have no problem creating the poster frame and thumbnail correctly. I have used rotated clips in iMovie with no problems.
I thought QT pro could also properly rotate a video clip, without just changing the display settings. People on the QT forums or iMovie forums (esp QuickTime Kirk) would be able to advise you there.
Regards.

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