How do I fix multiple ‘portrait-landscape’ video rotations?
QI recently sang at a friends’ golden wedding anniversary, and my wife recorded a video on my Samsung smartphone. The video was good but, unfortunately, my lovely wife turned the phone from portrait to landscape and back again quite a few times. I have tried to put this right using Movie Maker but couldn’t figure out a way. It would be nice to be able to present the anniversary couple with an edited copy, so is this possible? Richard Smith
AYes, and you can do it in Movie Maker. The trick is to use the program’s Split feature to chop the video up into a number of sections, with each split corresponding to a point at which your wife rotated the phone.
First, import the whole video by dragging and droping it into Movie Maker’s right-hand pane. Now, click in the video timeline at a point that’s roughly where a rotation occurs. Next, click and drag the marker line to finetune the position, using the preview window on the left to confirm the exact point. When you’re happy, right-click the marker line and, from the pop-up menu, choose Split. Repeat this for every point where the video rotates. As you do this, notice that each split section is bookended by film-style perforations: these bookends denote distinct clips.
All you need to do now is click on each clip in turn and then, in the Editing section of the ribbon’s Home tab, click either the ‘Rotate left’ or ‘Rotate right’ button, as appropriate (see screenshot). Finally, click the ‘Save movie’ button and choose the desired output format.