TIL: How To Rotate Video Recorded on your Smart Phone.

I recorded my kids learning to ride their bikes sans training wheels. They were very proud of themselves and wanted a video saved to USB for morning talk at school.
The video orientation was great on the phone… But on the PC it was sideways!

Today I learned to fix this problem by using Windows Movie Maker, formerly Windows Live Movie Maker [citation needed].
It is part of the “Essentials” bundle which is not included in windows 7, 8 or 10 but a separate download from Microsoft.com

Download it from here
Windows Movie Maker, from Microsoft.com

 

And some step by steps to help you out.

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movie maker step1

movie maker step2

movie maker step3

 

Enjoy!