Upside down video

pioneer109 wrote on 11/26/2025, 3:48 PM

My wife has a crosstour camera which is active whilst she is out walking our dog. unfortunately she has used the camera upside down. What is the best way to correct the orientations of the Video. I have used the pan and crop to achieve this. is this the best solution please? Cheers John

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jetdv wrote on 11/26/2025, 4:26 PM

I would use Pan/Crop to flip it. I'm sure you could use an effect of some sort but Pan/Crop is so easy for this purpose and is what I would use.

Dexcon wrote on 11/26/2025, 4:40 PM

Most certainly rotating in pan/crop is a good way, but if there are lots of video events that need rotation, then there's the choice of copy/pasting the pan/crop attributes to the other events or creating a track dedicated just for the upside-down video events and then use track motion in the track header to rotate 180º so that every video event placed on that track is automatically inverted.

Also available is R clicking a video event and selecting Properties from the context window that opens, then go to the Media tab where there is a field at the bottom for setting the rotation angle (inverting 180º is a preset in that field) - but this setting does not copy/paste so it would have to be done event-by-event unless you have Vegasaur which does allow selected video events on the timeline to have their properties (inc. rotation) changed as a job lot.

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EricLNZ wrote on 11/26/2025, 5:05 PM

but this setting does not copy/paste so it would have to be done event-by-event

@pioneer109 You don't need to try copy/paste, to do individual events or use Vegasaur.

In Project Media window select all the clips that need inverting. Then on one of the clips right click for Properties, Go to the Media Pane and Rotation. Alter it to 180 Inverted and all the selected clips will change. At least this is what happens in my VP21.

Gid wrote on 11/26/2025, 5:17 PM

@pioneer109 

  • Select the events (videos) on the timeline.
  • Right clock on one - Select in project media list.
  • Right click one of those highlighted in Project Media - Properties - Rotation, change it to 180º

This rotates the video tho, so the image might appear reversed like you see in a mirror.

Or there's an option in Project Media to rotate clockwise 90º, you could click this twice, again this rotates the videos.

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You might be better using the Pan/Crop on one event - Right click in the Pan/Crop window - Flip Vertical.

Right click that event on the timeline - Copy,

Select all the other events that need flipping - Paste Event Attributes.

@EricLNZ You posted while I was typing 😉

 

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