Video taken from cellphone showing sideways?

[mikehende]

I took a video clip with my cellphone and transferred to my pc, on my pc the video is showing sideways when I open it in any software. The video clip properties shows as:

Type of file 3GPP, Media file [.3gp]

How can I get this clip to show the proper way please?

[Cornucopia]

Open it in an editor/processor and rotate the video, then export to a new copy (using similar or better encoding settings). Yes, it's one generation down - not much else you can do. AFAIK, there is no "lossless rotate" feature like I've seen for JPEGs (where it re-tags the metadata).

Scott

[mikehende]

Thanks, can you recommend any "free" editor I can try this with since it's a one time deal please?

[TreeTops]

Try Windows Movie Maker but your computer is a little behind the times for video editing. It might work anyway depending on how much room you have remaining on that 40 Gig drive.

[mikehende]

I will try WMM as you've suggested when I get the chance and get back here. My pc is a very fast Intel duo core with large HDD so that should not be an issue.

[Ai Haibara]

Maybe, but TreeTops was basing that upon the system listed in your Computer Details.

[mikehende]

Yeah, I know, that was the pc I had when I first signed up on this forum years ago, sorry, I did not pay attention to that, i will correct that soon, thanks.

[mikehende]

WMM says it "it cannot open this type of file", any other free editor or one with a trial version I can download online to fix this issue please?

[Baldrick]

avidemux, open video, video codec->mpeg4 avc, filters->rotate->90 degrees, audio codec aac, format mp4 and save as new .mp4.

[aedipuss]

mediacoder also has a rotate video option.

[mikehende]

avidemux, open video, video codec->mpeg4 avc, filters->rotate->90 degrees, audio codec aac, format mp4 and save as new .mp4.

Thanks but 2 immediate problems, when I click on the VIDEO tab I am only seeing 2 options: Swap U and V and Show Motion vectors? Next, when I rotate in the Video Filter Manager window, the preview show the correct viewing for the video but when I close that window, in the software's main window the view does not change?

[sambat]

There are two arrow thingies on the top menu that select input or output screens.

[mikehende]

clicking on any of them doesn't do anything?

[sambat]

Try downloading an older version.

[mikehende]

Thanks, sorry I forgot to post that someone here helped me get it done but I will note this for future reference if needed.