Rotating an image is a matter of a couple of clicks. But doing the same with a video seems like a real challenge if you don't have the right tools at hand. Rotating a video has become quite popular these days, largely because of details like vertical recording on smartphones and tablets. The bad news is that processing times can be quite long, but the good news is that you don't need advanced platforms. A copy of Movie Rotator is enough.
The Problem with Vertical Videos
If you want to rotate an image, the truth is that you don't need to download anything. The most basic cloud image editors offer rotation functions just like any offline solution, and everything ends when you save a copy. But if we want to do the same with a video, the detour is much wider. The best practice to avoid post-processing a video and assign the correct orientation is, of course, changing the camera position. The plague of vertical videos is out of control, and nobody wants to see two huge black bars on each side of the content.
Movie Rotator to the Rescue
The Movie Rotator tool lets us correct this to a certain extent. After all, one thing is to rotate the video and another completely different is to modify the orientation of its content. In other words, if you have a vertical video in which a bottle has been filmed, processing that video with Movie Rotator will only lay the bottle down. Fortunately, that change is sufficient in most cases. Movie Rotator supports the main formats, and its interface is so simple to use that there is no way to make mistakes. Once you choose the orientation, you click the icon to save the result.
Movie Rotator requires a bit of patience on our part. Everything depends on the quality of the original video, its duration, and the speed of the computer. In my case, processing a thirteen-minute video (the only one I had at hand at that moment) took a little over twenty, but I imagine the program can work much better with short videos. The latest version of Movie Rotator has been on the market for almost two years, and its minimum compatibility is Windows 7, although those riders with XP and Vista have the possibility of downloading build 1.2. Movie Rotator is freeware and open source.
