Reversing a QuickTime movie?

[AES]

I can play a .mov movie forward and backward using the "loop" option in
QuickTime.

But, any way to edit the movie, using QuickTime, GraphicConverter,
Photoshop, any freeware apps so that the edited movie really becomes the
original movie, reversed?

(This is on a MacBook, OS 10.4.11, and I don't (to my knowledge) have
iMovie or anything similar on it.)

[Patty Winter]

In article <siegman-E6AF8D...@news.stanford.edu>,

AES <sie...@stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>(This is on a MacBook, OS 10.4.11, and I don't (to my knowledge) have
>iMovie or anything similar on it.)

Is this a second-hand computer from which the original owner removed
the iLife application suite? If not, then it should still have iMovie.

Patty

[JF Mezei]

AES wrote:

> But, any way to edit the movie, using QuickTime, GraphicConverter,
> Photoshop, any freeware apps so that the edited movie really becomes the
> original movie, reversed?

I think, but not sure if Quicktime has the ability to export a movie as
a series of frames, each in a numbred TIFF file.

You could then write a script to renumber the TIFF files so that the
highest numbered one is "1" and "1" is now the highest numbered frame.
You then re-import it and your movie will play backwards.

To get the sound backwards, you'll need to use a sound editing software
such as Amadeus and reverse the sountrack.

[P. Sture]

In article <siegman-E6AF8D...@news.stanford.edu>,
AES <sie...@stanford.edu> wrote:

I don't have QT Pro any more, but I did manage to export each frame so
that I could rotate movies taken on my camera by 90�.

--
Paul Sture

[nospam]

In article <paul.sture.nospam-C...@mac.sture.ch>, P.
Sture <paul.stu...@hispeed.ch> wrote:

> I don't have QT Pro any more, but I did manage to export each frame so
> that I could rotate movies taken on my camera by 90�.

it's a whole lot easier to open the movie properties (cmd-j), click the
video track, then click the appropriate rotate icon in visual settings
and save it.

[Mike Rosenberg]

AES <sie...@stanford.edu> wrote:

> (This is on a MacBook, OS 10.4.11, and I don't (to my knowledge) have
> iMovie or anything similar on it.)

iMovie has come preinstalled on every Mac sold for... well, I don't know
how many years, but the first version ran under OS 9. It's certainly on
every MacBook. You may have long since removed it from your Dock without
remembering, but unless you deleted it entirely it's still in
Applications. And if you _have_ deleted it you can reinstall it.

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[P. Sture]

In article <250520090507453361%nos...@nospam.invalid>,
nospam <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

I was using an old version of QT then, and didn't find such a setting.
The current version, which is the vanilla non-Pro version, has the Movie
Properties greyed out.

--
Paul Sture

[nospam]

In article <paul.sture.nospam-1...@mac.sture.ch>, P.
Sture <paul.stu...@hispeed.ch> wrote:

> > > I don't have QT Pro any more, but I did manage to export each frame so
> > > that I could rotate movies taken on my camera by 90�.
> >
> > it's a whole lot easier to open the movie properties (cmd-j), click the
> > video track, then click the appropriate rotate icon in visual settings
> > and save it.
>
> I was using an old version of QT then, and didn't find such a setting.

it's been there for a long time, at least a decade, if not more.

> The current version, which is the vanilla non-Pro version, has the Movie
> Properties greyed out.

that's weird, i seem to recall it let you rotate but not save in the
non-pro, so you'd have to redo the setting each time.