How to flip a video 90 degrees

Jehosaphet wrote on 8/24/2018, 7:18 PM

Hi there, you know how, when you're shooting video with your smart phone, you hold the phone length-wise, instead of vertically? To shoot full-screen?

Well I did that, and for whatever reason, the video is turned sideways...I'm not sure if its Vegas Pro or what, but to better describe what it looks like...its a wide-screen video that you'd have to tilt your head directly sideways in order to view properly. I need to turn it exactly 90 degrees to the left to make it proper.

I've Googled, "how to flip video" and seems like everything I've seen has to do with going into pan/crop, which doesn't seem to do the trick. Whatever I do in there, I'm still working with a sideways video, you know?

One suggestion was to go through Windows Movie Maker, but after downloading and installing, I can't see any indication of how to do it with that.

Any other suggestions maybe?

Comments

Kinvermark wrote on 8/24/2018, 7:47 PM

Right-click media: properties - media - rotation = 90

Pan/crop should also work, but is somewhat counter-intuitive if you aren't used to it.

Musicvid wrote on 8/24/2018, 9:21 PM

You want to rotate, not flip your video. Two different things.

karma17 wrote on 8/24/2018, 9:41 PM

Yes, what Musicvid says. You want to rotate, not flip. The solution is what Kinvermark says, 90 degrees counterclockwise.

Jehosaphet wrote on 8/24/2018, 9:48 PM

Yup, I got it...I ROTATED then had to pan and zoom in on it. I got it, thanks loads guys!

john_dennis wrote on 8/24/2018, 10:08 PM

“you know how, when you're shooting video with your smart phone, you hold the phone length-wise, instead of vertically?”

No. I use a camera to shoot video. I use a phone to talk to humans.

Kinvermark wrote on 8/24/2018, 10:21 PM

Ah yes but that's because we're so-last-century :)

Anyway, big thumbs up to the OP for at least bothering to turn his phone sideways. There are now websites where vertical and square are "normal" video formats.

 

Jehosaphet wrote on 8/25/2018, 12:35 AM

“you know how, when you're shooting video with your smart phone, you hold the phone length-wise, instead of vertically?”

No. I use a camera to shoot video. I use a phone to talk to humans.

Oh boy...wading into old-timer territory here lol

Let me guess, your ring-tone actually sounds like a ringing phone, too =D

john_dennis wrote on 8/25/2018, 12:44 AM

Yes. At least three generations of wireless technology and 25 or more years of sound synthesis to recreate the sound of a weight rattling back and forth between two bells. 

bitman wrote on 8/25/2018, 4:03 AM

I have a theory that the annoying vertical filming with smartphones is a result of what I assume is a due to the majority of booklet type of protective phone cases versus the minority of "Star Trek style" kind of flip cases in the way you hold it when open...

But that is just my theory.

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Kinvermark wrote on 8/25/2018, 11:02 AM

My theory is a bit cynical: ignorance + laziness. However, on the last point I concede that those gadgets are quite slippery; my wife has now dropped three!