Zen-Dreams

These days we are filming a lot our two daughters, in fact the youngest is now walking and we decided to collect as much videos for family as we can because we will move to Canada before the end of this year. Problem is, videos are taken using a Digital camera (Nikon E5200) and most of the time we turn around the camera so that our daughters can be filmed from the bottom to the top. But when looking at the video on a computer or a tv screen, we have to turn our heads around to see it.

The other “problem” is that at home, there is only GNU/Linux computers (2 laptops and a server), therefore, I needed to find a software running under GNU/Linux and allowing to do some basic video manipulation. That’s where Avidemux comes in handy. Just for information, Avidemux also exists under Windows and Mac OSX.

To install it, under Ubuntu, nothing more than a simple:

sudo apt-get install avidemux

Once installed, you will just need a few steps to turn around your video, but also using one of the numerous filters included with the software, such as crop, resize, colors, contrasts, sharp, etc…

After opening your video, you just need to add the Rotate filter and choose the correct angle (you can check using the preview button that everything is correct):

Once you chose the filter, you will have to re-encode the video so that the filter is processed. To do so, you will have to choose a new video format on the left of the main window. One very interesting thing with Avidemux is it’s capacity to create .flv videos, so that you can include your own videos on your website using a flash applet.

After the video processing is over, you should get something like this:

Before :

After :