Why would someone want this? Because millions of numbnuts regularly shoot video with their cell phones in the portrait (vertical alignment) position, somehow forgetting that most video is watched on computer and television screens which are horizontally aligned in the landscape position. Video recorded in portrait mode can play back 'on its side' on a computer monitor or TV if not rotated. thus making a program which rotates it 90º or 270º very useful.

As far as 'flipping' the video, that means simply reversing the image, as in a mirror. Horizonal flipping means right and left are reversed, but up remains up and down remains down. Vertical flipping means up and down are reversed but left remains left and right remains right.

Where would this be useful? I've noticed that when using the front facing camera on my cell phones (as you would for a 'selfie' pic), the resulting image is flipped horizontally. If there is something written - eg: a sign in the background, it will be reversed as it would in a mirror. To make the image appear as it would have to others present, the image needs to be horizontally flipped. If the same happens when video is shot with the front camera, that would need to be horizontally flipped to not be reversed from the way things actually appeared.

You would likely have to combine the two functions if someone shot selfie video on their cell phone front camera in portrait position and you wanted to play it back on a computer or TV screen. First you would rotate the image 90 or 270º to put it upright in a landscape frame, then flip it horizontally to get rid of the 'mirror' effect.

I hope this clarifies for you how the program would be used and why it will be useful to many people.

Joe Blow  –  2 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+55)

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[ Ken ],

FREE Google Picasa for Mac and Windows ( with versions all the way back to out XP fellow GOTD ) are available from the file sharing site like FilePuma, FileHippo, FileHourse, Archice. org and so on.

The latest version for Windows computers is Picasa 3.9.141 Build 259

The latest version for Mac computers is Version 3.9

The ONLY function that Google eliminated is uploading to Google Picasa Web / Google Photos, but independent add ins for uploading to Flickr are functional.

Google is focusing on CLOUD apps, and abandoning LOCAL programs as much as possible, but their LOCAL programs still work just fine.
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Peter Blaise  –  2 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+12)

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[ Dave ],

Yet, FREE Google Picasa works just fine at rotating and resaving videos, the offering of today's GOTD otherwise NOT FREE program.

AND, FREE Google Picasa also does so much more, such that I use it daily for:

- screen grabs,

- editing for social media illustrations,

- importing the day's shoot DIRECTLY from phones and cameras and camera cards, automatically putting them in date-directories by EXIF,

- screen-saver slide shows of our photo collections, including collections still on web,

- rotate photos and videos,

- optimize exposure and sharpness and other default or custom adjustments in batches across an entire folder,

- convert to filtered black and white in batches across an entire folder, I do it twice, once with a green filter, and once with a red filter,

- adding fill flash effects after the fact to underexposed images,

- making collages,

- face recognition, Rolodex creation of folks, emailing directly via GMail,

- scan images from TWAIN sources,

- the image storage uses native Windows file structure so all other programs can work on the same images in the same order, too,

- ORIGINALS are never changed, only scripted to your choices of straighten, crop, auto-expose, sharpen, and tons of other controls, and if you want to use the results outside FREE Google Picasa, simply export them, the ORIGINALS stay intact,

- more, more, more, endless, I have not discovered everything FREE Google Picasa can do.

ALL across our current 40,000+ and growing image archive of raw and JPEG and BMP and TIFF and PNG from film scans, print scans, and direct digital capture, including images downloaded from the web that aren't mine but that I want to study and appreciate.

And I use FREE Google Picasa on customer computers to reorganize their "all over the disk" random picture non-collections into ONE chronological archive according to EXIF date taken, I turn on the slide show screen saver, and watch my customers melt in appreciation and awe at finally getting to see, all in one place, ALL of their precious photos.

I even walk around their house and take photos of their old print photos and instantly import them into FREE Google Picasa.

For invalids, I also photograph their open cabinets around the kitchen, house, basement, and attic so they can see their storage of materials, and so that helpers know where to find stuff without having to re-purchase needed items like detergent and other consumables, their entire house contents on a screen-saver slide show to remind them of where they live and what's stored in there.

FREE.
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The ONLY function that Google eliminated is uploading to Google Picasa Web / Google Photos, but independent add ins for uploading to Flickr are functional.

Google is focusing on CLOUD apps, and abandoning LOCAL programs as much as possible, but their LOCAL programs still work just fine.

Please do share
( a ) what other features and benefits that you think FREE Google Picasa can no longer do, and
( b ) what competitive FREE or even FEE programs do equally well, or better.

Thanks for exploring this.
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Peter Blaise  –  2 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+12)

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