How To Rotate iPhone Video?

Have you ever been in a situation when you recorded a portrait video using your iPhone only to find out that everything goes sideways when you try to watch that video in landscape mode? Well, it doesn’t have to be like that anymore. If you know how to rotate iPhone video, you can easily correct your videos and watch them in whatever orientation you like. There are several options available for rotating videos captured using your iPhone and some of them are discussed here.

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How To Rotate iPhone Video Using iMovie
How To Rotate iPhone Video Using Rotate And Flip
How To Rotate iPhone Video Using Your Mac
How To Rotate iPhone Video Using Windows PC

How To Rotate iPhone Video Using iMovie

The iMovie app from Apple can allow you to rotate your iPhone videos without any kind of hassles whatsoever. The best part is that it comes completely for free and if you know how to use it then you can easily correct your videos using this software. If you haven’t installed iMovie yet, just head to App Store and grab your piece. Next, here are the steps to follow for rotating your iPhone videos.

Once you have installed iMovie, launch it and tap on ‘Video’
Select that video that you’d like to rotate
Tap share button from bottom of screen
Select ‘Create Video’ on next screen
Next, you need to turn your video using your forefinger and thumb for rotating it as you like
This will turn the portrait video into landscape mode
Now tap that Share icon again
Tap ‘Save Video’
Make sure that the video is saved in resolution matching the quality of the original video. Videos can be saved in qualities as high as 4K but you should only do that if that’s the quality of original video as well.
Once the video has been saved, you can check it out from Photo Library

That’s all, start rotating videos using iMovie now!

How To Rotate iPhone Video Using Rotate And Flip

Another alternate to iMovie is Rotate & Flip. It’s a free app as well that is designed specifically for rotating and flipping of videos and it really does its job well. However, the free version comes with ads and if you want to get rid of them all then you will have to pay $2.99 to upgrade to the ad-free version. But if you’re okay with the free version, just get on with rotating your videos.

Download and install the app from App Store and launch it on your device
For rotating your videos, tap to select one and it will be outlined with yellow color
Tap on ‘Select’ in top right corner
You can now fix the video using those buttons that you can see at bottom of the screen. The buttons can be used for rotating right, left, reverse and also flip the video vertically.
Once you’re done rotating your video, you can tap on ‘Export’ in top right corner of the screen
You will now see compatibility dialog that prompts you to specify what sort of compatibility you need. Ideally, you should make the video that is compatible with all the video players available and ensure that every frame in the video is rotated. You can also go for changing orientation flag of your video that will rotate it for Quicktime player and in iOS only.
Once you’re done processing your video, Rotate & Flip will now show you a Share dialog box. You can tap on ‘Save Video’ for saving the rotated video on your iPhone. You can also save the video to cloud if the option is available. Another option is to share it with others through message, email, Facebook, etc.

Remember, if the video is saved on your iPhone, you will be able to find it in the Photos Library on your device.

How To Rotate iPhone Video Using Your Mac

If you’re a Mac user and want to use your desktop for rotating iPhone videos, it is very much possible as well. All you have to do is to import the videos from iPhone to Mac and then simply rotate them using iMovie. iMovie comes for free in Macs like Macbook Pro and Macbook Air. Here are the steps that you need to follow for rotating iPhone videos using your Mac.

Launch iMovie Software on your Mac and click on import for importing your iPhone video to Mac
Click on ‘Crop’ menu for opening crop window in which you can find rotate icon right on the top
Here you can click on rotate right or rotate left icon for rotating your video by 90 degrees in either direction
Click on ‘Share’ menu now
Click on ‘Export using Quicktime’

That’s all, your video has been rotated to your liking.

How To Rotate iPhone Video Using Windows PC

If you don’t have a Mac, however, and want to rotate your iPhone video using a Windows PC, you’ll not have access to free iMovie version. This means you’ll have to find a different free tool that is reliable as well. Here, we’d like to recommend Wondershare Filmora, a free third party tool for video editing, which comes in handy particularly when you have to make different other edits to your videos as well. You can use this tool for trimming videos, adding background music, and applying video effects for enhancing the iPhone videos. With its different editing options and a simple interface, Filmora has really turned into a powerful tool for amateurs as well. Here is how you can start rotating your iPhone videos with Filmora’s 30-day free trial.

First of all, load your iPhone videos by simply connecting the iPhone to your PC. The software detects the videos automatically and directly loads them for editing purposes.
Now for rotating videos, just double click your desired video to open it in editing window and click the option for rotating right/left.
Click ‘OK’ when you’re done rotating.
Now, if you want to edit your video further, use options like flip/cut/trim video, or add filter effect/text effect/ music resource/ transition/ overlay effect. Skip this step if you are not interested in any other kind of editing.
Once you have done all the editing, you can click on ‘Export’ in order to save all the changes you have made

You can also export the edited video to a new one and then directly share to Facebook as well.

So, if you don’t know exactly how to rotate iPhone video, use any of the above options as you like. It’s just the matter of your own personal preference as to which one you’d like to choose. All of them work just fine and can be used for rotating iPhone videos on respective devices.

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