The best way to do it is simply to drag and drop that as a file. If you do that it will open up in QuickTime Player but it really doesn't work very well. Now you can't use the Image and Edit With. There's no way in Edit here to do any kind of rotation or cropping or anything like that. Under Image there's Rotate Counterclockwise and Clockwise. This is in the Photos app that comes with High Sierra and unfortunately there really isn't.
Here I've got that same wrongly oriented video here in the Photos app and you'd think there would be a way for me to adjust it. So another file here that's the correct orientation. So that's why I say that the grayed out Save button there is definitely a bug because obviously QuickTime Player knows that there's the ability to save here.
#Rotate video in imovie on mac 720p
So I know this is a 720p video and I can export as 720p.Īnother thing you can do is basically just close the window. I call that a bug there but you can still use Export As and Export As the correct size. You would think you can go to File, Save but for some reason it's grayed out. Now once you do that you want to Save the new video. In the QuickTime Player, in the Edit menu, there's rotate left and rotate right. Here I have the file and I'm going to double click it and it will open up in QuickTime Player. Now if you just want to change this one video, you don't want to create an entire iMovie project to do it, you can just double click the file. The clips remain the same but in the timeline it's rotated. It's the right way and now we can just continue to use this in the iMovie project. But in this case what we really want to do is we want to rotate the video so it's the proper orientation. Of course you can crop to fill which will just grab the center piece. Meaning that there's large black bars on either side. If you go back to how it looked originally you can see it scales it down to fit so the tops and the bottom are there. So I can click here to rotate the entire clip and you can see it rotates to the correct orientation and it pops in place. The cropping tool has the ability to crop in different ways but also has these rotation buttons. But you put it into the timeline here and then at the top of the viewer here you select the cropping tool. The clip itself stays just as it was before. It's pretty easy to do this in iMovie and you can also do it, if you just want to correct that one video, in QuickTime Player. So you can end up with this where you have the video that's in the wrong orientation. Phones today are a little bit better at handling this but some cameras are not. This can happen sometimes if you start recording a video on a camera and you're holding it one way and you correct yourself without stopping and starting your recording again.
You can see it's a piece of vertical video but actually the video is turned on its' side. Video Transcript: Let's say you have a piece of video that's the wrong orientation like this clip here. Check out Rotate Video In iMovie and QuickTime Player at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.