Once you upgrade to QuickTime Pro, select one of these buttons to flip or rotate your movie using QuickTime Player.
I recorded a bunch of movies on my digital camera by holding it vertically instead of horizontally, but now they only play sideways on my Mac, and I can’t figure out how to rotate them.
If you upgrade from QuickTime (free, included with Mac OS X) to QuickTime Pro ($29.99, www.apple.com), you gain several extra features, such as basic video editing, conversion of your movies to a variety of formats, and built-in audio and video recording. You can also change the size and orientation of movies that you’ve recorded.
To change the orientation of your movies, open up a movie in QuickTime Player and choose Window > Show Movie Properties. Select the track entitled Video Track and click the Visual Settings tab below. Click one of the rotate buttons to rotate your movie.
Alternatively, check out TransformMovie (variable pricing, www .limit-point.com/Utilities/TransformMovie.html), which is specifically designed for rotating and resizing QuickTime movies.
SheriVan
November 07, 2008 at 6:18pm
Once the movie is rotated, how do I keep it from being squashed to the 4:3 size? I took a portrait-oriented video of fireworks on July 4, and after rotating the video, the scale was all wrong. The video was short and fat.
bobm
October 31, 2010 at 12:05pm
I use iPhone Explorer (freeware at http://www.macroplant.com/iphoneexplorer/) to move iPhone4 movies to my Mac.
Here are the steps to solve your problem.
1. Obtain TransformfMovie shareware from Kagi at http://www.limit-point.com/Utilities/TransformMovie.html
2. Process iPhone movie with TransformMovie Rotation and Filtering preference set to Rotate 90 degrees Counter Clockwise
3. Import rotated movie into iMovie'09
4. Rotate clockwise in iMovie as follows:
Select imported clip
Go to Window:Cropping Ken Burns & Rotation
Select the right curved arrow at the top-right pane to rotate clockwiseYou should end up with your portrait video imported into iMovie'09.
