topic Re: How to turn a video in Camera Software

How to rotate a video shot sideways

Keith_itis — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:32:17 GMT

Hi, so a friend of mine filmed me on an event, but with the camera on the side. I see nowhere how to turn the video around to not be on the side. I tried putting it on my phone to see if I could change it, no success. Maybe there's a way to do it on PC I wasn't able to do? I transferred it on my Google drive for now, if you have a solution let me know, because I am so mad at him for real.

Re: How to turn a video

kvbarkley — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:24:09 GMT

You need a video editor to do a rotate.

iMovie and I suppose Quicktime can do it on a Mac

Look at ClipMaster on Windows.

Re: How to turn a video

stevet1 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:55:40 GMT

Keith_itis,

You can rotate videos in VLC Media Player too.

There are YouTube videos on how to do that.

Steve Thomas

Re: How to turn a video

johnrmoyer — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:12:00 GMT

If you have access to a Linux system, then:

-display_rotation[:stream_specifier] rotation (input,per-stream) Set video rotation metadata.
rotation is a decimal number specifying the amount in degree by which the video should be rotated counter-clockwise before being displayed.
This option overrides the rotation/display transform metadata stored in the file, if any. When the video is being transcoded (rather than copied) and -autorotate is enabled, the video will be rotated at the filtering stage. Otherwise, the metadata will be written into the output file if the muxer supports it.
If the -display_hflip and/or -display_vflip options are given, they are applied after the rotation specified by this option.

ffmpeg -i $INPUTVIDEO -metadata:s:v rotate="-90" -codec copy $OUTPUTVIDEO

Might work with other operating systems also: https://ffmpeg.org/