iPhone troubleshooting: How to rotate videos shot by iPhone using the Movie Rotator App

Shooting videos from your PDA or iPhone is common, however some of you might have realized that when you download your videos from your iPhone to your PC, you might find that they are titled, that is they are oriented vertically instead of horizontally or vice versa. Today in troubleshooting iPhone, we will show you how to rotate a video shot by an iPhone. When you start shooting the iPhone video, the video looks ok on the iPhone screen, however the sensors in iPhone decide weather to orient the video in a portrait or landscape format. A slight tilt can cause the clip to orient the wrong way and by the time you download it to your PC, its too late, you can't re shoot the video moments again. However, in this article we will introduce you to a very easy and free Movie Rotator App that will fix this problem for you.

The Application we are going to use is a freeware application called Movie Rotator. The reason we are choosing to use this app instead of a Windows built in tool such a Windows Movie Maker is because Windows Movie Maker is available only to Windows XP and onwards users. It is not available to Windows 2000 users. Before we start, there is a BIG word of  caution, before you attempt any of this on your movie file, make sure you make a backup copy of it. This is very very IMPORTANT, as Movie Rotator will over write your file. Also there might be an issue with sound , please see my notes at the end of this article about it, its not the software, just how Apple encodes its movies on iPhone.

Step1: - Download the Movierotator from http://movierotator.com/index.html and then run the installer by double clicking on your downloaded exe file

Step 2: - Click next on to start the install

Step 3: - Accpet agreement and click next

Step 4: - Choose default install location and click next

Step 5: -  Choose default program group

Step 6: -  You can choose to install a desktop icon

Step 7: -  Choose install to proceed