Animating Rotation in Videopad - Rotation Can only be Clockwise?

Chris_White

Hello all,

I have several times had the need to animate the rotation of a clip anticlockwise however have been unable to find a way to do it in VideoPad. It can animate the rotation clockwise but is unable to animate it anticlockwise? I have always resorted to other programs to achieve this.

Is there a reason why videopad will not animate rotations anticlockwise - or a way that I have not found to make it animate rotations anticlockwise?

Thanks

Chris

borate

Chris_White wrote:

Is there a reason why videopad will not animate rotations anticlockwise - or a way that I have not found to make it animate rotations anticlockwise?

Note the presets; one is "spin counter-clockwise."

You can also rotate either way, manually, by clicking and dragging the red dot in the preview window's circle. When the dots are moused over the popup reveals what they do and the angle of rotation.

Chris_White

Ahhahhh.

So if I just start with my video at 360 degrees and go backwards from there. That works

Not quite intuitive but it works.

Using the snaps in the preview (red dots) still only sets the rotation to a positive clockwise value - eg if I drag the snap ANTI-clockwise to -30 degrees it actually sets it to 330 degrees and then when the motion is played (animated) it rotates the clip CLOCKWISE from 0 round to +180 and then to 330 - when actually what I would want it to do is to rotate from 0 anticlockwise to -30 degrees (330 degrees).

I have a fix now that enables me to rotate anticlockwise - the only time I can see this fix causing an issue is if I have a single clip that I wanted to rotate from 0 to -180 (anticlockwise say) then back round to 0 clockwise and then round to positive 180 (clockwise). I think I could possibly do this by splitting the clip. The time will come soon when I need to do this so will see how I go.

Thanks for you help.

borate

One method...

Clip 1

Clip 2

The result

Chris_White

Thanks All for your Help.