It’s important to note that this change in orientation will only work if the video is played in VLC. When you’re happy with the orientation, Click Save and watch your video. You’ll use the knob to turn the video around. Now to rotate, you can either select the Transform check box to choose between pre-set orientations or you can select the Rotate check box to rotate your video to the desired angle you want. Then make sure the Video Effects tab is selected followed by the Geometry sub-tab. Then click on Tools at the top and select Effects and filters. If you don’t have VLC, here’s how to install it. VLC Media player is a very useful open source media player that can do much more than just play media files.

There are plenty of video editing tools and application you could use to correct the video orientation but in this tutorial, we’ll be using something you probably already have installed on your computer VLC Media player. Especially if you shoot a lot of smartphone videos, you must have exported a video to your computer and tried to watch it, only to find it sideways or up side down.

There are circumstances that will lead to you ending up with a video that’s either up side down or simply in the unwanted orientation.

Vlc rotate video and save