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How do I reverse an image?

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harmonica44

Some of the shots of my short film have to be turned upside down, cause of the location, I could not shoot right side up, cause of how the room was shaped. So I shot it upside down with the intention of flipping it in post. But in Premiere Pro, I cannot find how to do that and couldn't find anything in the instructions on how.
 
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In Premiere, under the "effect controls" tab there's a motion setting. Drop it down, change rotation to 180.

I really recommend getting a Lynda.com account and going through the Premiere Pro tutorials, or find some elsewhere and do ALL of it.

Start with "CS5 Essential Training" then go from there: http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-training-tutorials/287-0.html

After that, jump to Videocopilot.net and do the 10 hours of basic training for free and then move on to some of the more advanced tutorials.

All the software has a little bit of a learning curve, but it's really really intuitive once you get into it. Also, all the Adobe programs are mostly similar so once you learn your way around one or two, the others are even easier to pick up.
 
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Do you need to rotate or to flip it?

Flipping: (left stays left)
Select clip in timeline (so you know which clip it is.)
Go to effects window.
Open 'Transform' folder.
Pick up 'Flip Vertical', drag it on clip: et voila! The upsidedownfootage is upsideup again.

(In this folder you'll also find: 'Horizontal Flip' and 'Crop'.)

(When rotating:
Select clip.
Go to properties window.
Open: motion tab.
Change rotation to 180 degrees.)

If rotating is to difficult for you:
Combing a Vertical Flip with a Horizontal Flip is the same as rotating 180 degrees.

(If neither of this works: try to import the clip again while holding the camera upsidedown :P)

(I'm so happy I can flip the image inside my camera, so it gets recorded the way I need it on the timeline :) I only used it once, lol)
 
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Cracker Funk said:
:lol:

H44, for future reference -- don't shoot footage upside-down, unless that's the way you want it. You could've just rotated the camera and held it upside-down.
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I've actually shot a few things upside down lately haha. We had to undersling my home made jib and we couldn't get it low enough unless mounted upside down. I also did a few hits upside down holding the bottom of a monopod so I could get some extreme low anlgles of some live dancing. Warp stabilizer covers a multitude of camera sins ha.

I think a better rule is don't shoot something out-of-normal unless you new experienced enough to understand why you're breaking a rule and know the exact way and possibility of it being "fixed" in post.
 
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harmonica44 said:
Okay thanks. Well since Premiere only rotates non edited footage, I had to rotate the original takes, and re-edit them, but it looks great flipped right side up now. Thanks.
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Did you read and understand the anwsers you got?
You can rotate in the timeline.
(I've been working with Premiere since 2000 AD... moving to CS5.5 this week, but I don't expect the rotation control has been removed. :P)
 
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I just thought the imaged could be rotated though, not actually reversed. Thank you very much. I wonder if that section of the fight is worth reshooting though, and trying to get the set and actors to look, the same and the continuity right. Basically when the camera is on the floor and pointing diagonally up, during the choking, the actor's face is just unusually close, like instead of the camera beginning at the elbows, like it normally would, it beings at the collar and chin, as the actor is rocked back and forth, a little out of frame. Is that so bad, or could it come off as stylistic?
 
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