need to rotate iPhone 4 video on phone for use in iMovie - Help!

Wondering the same thing myself! I didnt even think twice about the way I was shooting it... I shot in both landscape and portrait, when I uploaded them to my imovie on my macbook the ones that were shot portrait look distorted... new to this iphone stuff, any help??

I'm having the same, annoying issues.

I'll hold my phone horizonally (and the menus turn the correct way) and start recording a video, and about a quarter of the time, the video on the PC comes out vertical (which looks ridiculous and very unusual).

Similar thing for photos, but even more often than that. About half the photos I take, when I e-mail them to myself, need rotating (which can't be done in mail applications, you have to save them then rotate them). VERY frustrating.

Didn't happen with photos taken on my 3G. It always knew whether they were vertical or horizontal.

Sorry I can't help to solve your problem--I always use landscape mode, never the "upright" way.
So....I guess you're not having any difficulty with sound after importing your iPhone 4 video to iMovie? That's where I'm hitting the obstacle. Have you experienced this at all?

I am seeing the same problem, it appears that when you record with the iphone4 and do not hold it perfectly level then it will sometimes, automatically choose the wrong orientation. I have tried importing into Motion & rotating but it clips most of the screen.

I have seen lots of references to this problem on google, the old fix of using QTPro is no longer available with QT10. It seems like a real dumb thing for Apple to not fix

I figured out how to do this in Quicktime 7 Pro -- for those Snow Leopard users who don't already know it, you still have the old Quicktime 7 in your utilities folder.

Once the video is on your computer's hard drive, open it up in Quicktime 7. Got to Window|Show Movie Properties and go to the Visual Settings tab. Once there, you will see four buttons on the bottom for flipping and rotating.

Wow...nice job figuring that out. Works like a charm. Thanks for posting the remedy.

What about us gasp Win 7 users that don't have QT Pro? Is there another way? I recorded some videos at a Rush concert last night in portrait mode. Windows Media Player sees it rotated sideways so that's no good. Quicktime plays it in portait mode. My VideoStudio Pro X2 crashes when loading the file so I can't rotate it there.