I have a potentially-embarrasing video question…
My co-worker gave me a segment of video in Quicktime format. When played, it’s on its side, and it needs to be rotated 90 degrees on the screen. This is easy to do for a still picture in Photoshop; how can I do this for a Quicktime movie?
I would prefer not to convert the movie to another format and then back to quicktime, and I would prefer not to buy Quicktime Pro. Can Adobe Premiere do this? What about a freeware or open-source tool?
Premiere can do this. Just import the video and throw it into the timeline. When its in your preview window, just grab one of the corners and turn it. Then output it. Done and done.
Well, dang. I’m going to have to try this. We’ll see how it does on the transcoding front…
It may be only in the “Pro” edition of QuickTime (which I have) and it may only be the Mac edition of QuickTime (which I have), but I’m pretty sure that if you look at the movie properties, there’s an option to rotate, flip, inverse, and otherwise do all kinds of things to the video.
The “Pro” version of Quicktime simply allows the Quicktime player to expose those property controls. If you have a third-party video utility that uses Quicktime, you could make the same changes to the movie without paying for the “Pro” key.
And IIRC, the Mac and Windows versions of the Quicktime Player work the same way.
I’ve been doing a lot of video work lately and I’m sure this can be done without spending any money. I’ll report back in just a tick…
Ah… not sure if it can be done for free without transcoding, which I understand you want to avoid (missed that on the first read)…
My advice (anyway) would be to try (and see if you’re happy with the quality) using something like Rad Video Tools to convert Mov>AVI, then a VirtualDub filter to rotate it, but I don’t know of a freeware utility to convert AVI back to MOV, but my choice would be recompressing as MPG, which I think is more universally playable anyway (many people dislike installing quicktime because the software to play it can be intrusive).
On reflection, maybe that wasn’t too helpful, in all. I’ll get me coat.
I can confirm that the Windows version of QT Pro permits rotation. Now all I have to do is figure out a use for it. 
Well, uh, refer back to the OP…
If you have a vaguely modern ATI or nVidia card and are willing to download the latest drivers, you could just rotate the entire monitor 90 degrees to wach the movie and then rotate back.
Or rotate the physical monitor, or watch it lying down!
OK, I’ll go now.