{"id":2926,"date":"2014-06-03T14:48:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T19:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2014-06-03T14:48:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T19:48:53","slug":"editing-cellphone-videos-in-ubuntu-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/03\/editing-cellphone-videos-in-ubuntu-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing cellphone videos in Ubuntu Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a slightly older android cell phone, chances are it records videos using the &#8220;3gp&#8221; format.  When editing 3gp videos in OpenShot on Ubuntu, the audio and video can become unsynced.  I have found that using the WinFF application you can convert the 3gp video into &#8220;DV &#8211; Raw DV for NTSC full screen&#8221; format, which will allow OpenShot to edit it correctly without having audio sync problems.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, sometimes when shooting videos with a cell phone, you may forget to rotate the phone to &#8220;landscape&#8221; orientation and be left with a vertical video that is rotated 90 degrees when shown on a computer. OpenShot can be used to rotate videos as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>right click on the clip<\/li>\n<li>click Properties<\/li>\n<li>Choose the Effect tab (far right) <\/li>\n<li>Hit the &#8220;+&#8221; sign and then scroll down to &#8220;R&#8221; for Rotate.<\/li>\n<li>In the effects settings:\n<ul>\n<li>set the Rotate X, Y and Z to 0.00 <\/li>\n<li>set the Fixed Rotate X variable to 90.0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hit apply <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a slightly older android cell phone, chances are it records videos using the &#8220;3gp&#8221; format. When editing 3gp videos in OpenShot on Ubuntu, the audio and video can become unsynced. I have found that using the WinFF &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/03\/editing-cellphone-videos-in-ubuntu-linux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,2],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-phones","category-technology","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}