When we transfer a video from our Retina Display iPad to our PC, it always comes across upside down. Can anyone tell us why and how to get the video across the right way up please? Thanks.
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I got fed up with this happening and literally STUCK an arrow on the ipad pointing "up" because I thought I must have been holding it upside down!!- which I don't think is the case. The question is not so much WHY this keeps happening, but rather why Apple produced an EXPENSIVE device that continually seems to demonstrate this behaviour (believe me you're not alone with this one. I had to search out another programme to "flip" the videos when it continually happened to me, (Windows Movie Maker will do it) and I've yet to hear a satisfactory reason/ excuse as to what it's about).
I got fed up with this happening and literally STUCK an arrow on the ipad pointing "up" because I thought I must have been holding it upside down!!- which I don't think is the case. The question is not so much WHY this keeps happening, but rather why Apple produced an EXPENSIVE device that continually seems to demonstrate this behaviour (believe me you're not alone with this one. I had to search out another programme to "flip" the videos when it continually happened to me, (Windows Movie Maker will do it) and I've yet to hear a satisfactory reason/ excuse as to what it's about).
you can properly shot videos with iPhone iPad or iPod touch to avoid this video upside down or sideways problem.
When shooting iPad video always turn the ipad on the side and film in landscape and make sure to hold your iPad with the Home button on the right. Portrait iPad videos will play 90 degrees sideways with Windows PC, landscape iPhone videos with the Home button on the wrong side will play upside down on Window PC.
source: http://www.videoslimmerapp.com/iphone-video-upside-down.html
is there any software that can solve this problem? My video is for school - it includes all sports day content
Install Quicktime on your PC. You probably already have it. Launch Quicktime player. Click File/Open file.... and then navigate to your video file. Apple media plays correctly in Apple software. If you edit the video and export it from Quicktime on your PC it will play correctly on PCs after that.
Apple embeds standard meta data in video and photo files produced by iDevices such as iPhones and iPads to determine orientation.
This is done so that no matter how you hold the device the video and photos are always right side up. Because physical cameras do have an up and down to them. If you rotate a camera then the video will be rotated as well.
If the software being used to view these files does not read or correctly identify the meta data for orientation it will not correctly rotate the video. And as such will not be correctly dispalyed.
This is more of a failure form the software playing back the video then the iPad or iPhone itself.
The easy way to remedy this, is to make sure the iPad or iPhone is held in the correct orientation when filming or taking pictures.
there are 100's free programs which change the vertical or horizontal origination of video clips
How to change the orientation of movie clip, i.e. vertical to horizontal?
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But this comes up time and again. Exactly WHY are the videos flipped upside down by the Apple process in the first place- causing all this drama and hassle!!
Its not the Apple Process. Its the physical act of holding the iPad or iPhone camera upside down when taking the picture, or filming.
Turn your iPad around 180 degrees the next time you take a picture and the photos or movie will be right side up.
Apple does the smart thing, so it doesn't matter how you hold the device the photos and videos are always displayed right side up. Other software may not do this.
You can use the Windows Movie Maker to rotate the iPhone videos. If you have multiple videos, you can also add all the videos, select them all in Windows Movie Maker and rotate all of them at the same time, check steps from this guide: http://www.softwarert.com/rotate-iphone-video-in-windows-movie-maker/
Well said.
To make the issue more clear, following image shows how to avoid the hassle.
When shooting videos on iPhone, make sure to hold the phone in horizontally, and the home button at the right side.
Source: http://www.betterhostreview.com/add-iphone-videos-to-website.html
What if I'm shooting "Selfie" video? Should the home button then be on the LEFT??? I do instructional videos and use the screen-side camera. All the videos I shot this morning appear upside down on my PC.
Gigginpig wrote:
What if I'm shooting "Selfie" video? Should the home button then be on the LEFT??? I do instructional videos and use the screen-side camera. All the videos I shot this morning appear upside down on my PC.
No, home button always on the right, even with selfie videos.
When I transfer a video from iPad to PC it is always upside down, why is this please?
