rotating a video using ffmpeg

Source

Easy transformations of videos:

  • turn to the right

    ffmpeg  -i  2012-04-29\ 19.31.32.mov  -vf "transpose=1" -sameq -y 2012-04-29\ 19.31.32_right.mov

  • turn to the left

    ffmpeg -i  2012-04-29\ 19.31.32.mov  -vf "transpose=3" -sameq 2012-04-29\ 19.31.32_left.mov

  • upside down

    ffmpeg -i  2012-04-29\ 19.31.32.mov  -vf "transpose=2" -sameq 2012-04-29\ 19.31.32_left.mov

  • made some scripts:

    $ vim ~/bin/video_rotate.sh
$ chmod +x ~/bin/video_rotate.sh

$ cat  ~/bin/video_rotate.sh
#! /usr/bin/env bash
ORIGINAL_IFS=$IFS
IFS=$'\n'
ffmpeg  -i $1 -v 0  -vf "transpose=$2"  -qscale 0 -y tmp.mov && mv tmp.mov $1
IFS=$ORIGINAL_IFS

$ video_rotate.sh 2012-04-29_19.31.32.mov 1