How to rotate iMovies?

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How to rotate iMovies?

How can I rotate movies taken with iPhone? What I do I download the movies to iMovie but they are horizontal and I need to rotate them 90 degrees to make them vertical. Looks like a very simple task, but I cannot find a way to do it.

Frank

Posted on Mar 12, 2012 9:47 AM

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Kiwiphone4

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Mar 12, 2012 1:19 PM in response to Frank Secco

iMovie creates HD video, which is horizontal.

You can rotate your video using a turning swipe with two fingers.

Rotate a video clip

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Rotate a clip

With your project open, scroll the timeline until the clip you want to rotate is showing in the viewer.
In the viewer, move your finger and thumb in a clockwise or counterclockwise twisting motion over the video image.When the white arrow appears, the video clip has been rotated 90 degrees. It may take a moment for the clip to appear rotated in the viewer.Repeat this motion as many times as necessary to achieve the orientation you want.

But it will add black bars on the sides of the video.

http://help.apple.com/imovie/iphone/1.3/index.html

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Strgzr

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Apr 22, 2015 2:29 PM in response to Kiwiphone4

You said:

Rotate a clip

With your project open, scroll the timeline until the clip you want to rotate is showing in the viewer.
In the viewer, move your finger and thumb in a clockwise or counterclockwise twisting motion over the video image.When the white arrow appears, the video clip has been rotated 90 degrees. It may take a moment for the clip to appear rotated in the viewer.Repeat this motion

...I tried this, it did rotate, but no white arrow appears, and it won't stick, it flips back to sideways again. I took the video on iPhone6 in landscape view, maybe that is why it won't stick?

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