How to Rotate a Video in Windows—Setting Up Videos to Create Awesome Projects

You’ve got a bunch of videos recorded in the wrong mode and you need to rotate them? This is a common issue for most of us, regardless of the device we’re using.

There’s probably a whole lot of videos on your hard drive that are in portrait instead of landscape mode, and vice versa. When we want to capture something quickly, it sometimes happens that we start recording in the wrong mode and flip our device when we realize we’ve made a mistake. 

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Plenty of devices remain locked in the mode they started recording in, leaving us with a video that makes no sense watching unless we want to break our neck. It also happens that, when we film something under an odd angle, the device makes the decision for us that isn’t what we intended originally. 

It could also be that you’re creating an artistic video project where you’d like to play with your videos by rotating them in various ways.

Whatever the reason, rotating your video in Windows should be an easy task, right? The first course of action would be checking out the good old Windows Media Player.

Can I Rotate a Video in Windows Media Player?

Windows Media Player is something like an old friend to Windows users. It’s been around since Windows 3.0. Even after all this time, it’s still the default video player for Windows operating systems. You can find it in Windows 10. All you need to do is:

1. Go to Start
2. Search for Windows Media Player
3. Click on the program when it pops up

Windows Media Player is still a decent solution for basic video playback needs. It supports a variety of formats, including MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, 3GP, M2TS, MPEG, etc. The question is—how does it fare when it comes to features other than playing videos?

The answer will disappoint you. Windows Media Player doesn’t provide any video editing features, including the ability to rotate your video.

It may come as a surprise, considering that Windows Photo Viewer allows you to rotate your images. One might expect from a video player that’s been around for so long to have such a feature.

In truth, Windows Media Player became obsolete a long time ago, and it was replaced with more robust third-party solutions, like GOM Player and VLC Media Player.

To rotate your videos, you can turn to various websites that are often debatable when it comes to safety issues. If you’re using one of the more feature-rich video players, they can help you fix your videos. 

What we offer is a superior solution—using our video editing platform to edit your videos and create amazing projects from them.

Creating and Rotating Videos Using InVideo Video Editor

InVideo Homepage

InVideo is a cloud-based video editing platform that comes with plenty of features that you can use to create various kinds of eye-catching videos. There are three methods for crafting a video using our video editor. 

How To Rotate a Video Using InVideo

InVideo Blank Template

If you need to rotate your video recordings, you can use the Blank Template. This option enables you to start with an empty template that allows you to edit your video from square one. 

To start making your video with this option, you need to:

1. Log in to your InVideo account
2. Click on the Create button in the top-right corner of your screen
3. Pick the Blank Template option
   
   
4. Choose the dimensions that you want your video to be in
5. Click on Start Editing

The InVideo video editor will open. To start working on your media files, you need to upload them.

InVideo Media Upload

Go to the Upload tab in the left panel. To import your media files, you need to click on the blue button at the bottom of the menu. It’s important to note that you can upload files up to 200MB in size. You can upload various video file formats, such as:

• MP4
• AVI
• MOV
• FLV
• MKV
• WMV

You can import other types of media if you need to as well, such as images and audio files.

When you upload your media, it will appear in the menu above the button. You can click on any video to preview it. To start editing it, drag and drop it onto a scene.

Rotating a Video Element

InVideo Video Rotation

Rotating a video element is simple. What you need to do is:

1. Resize the video element until you can see the edges and the Rotate icon
2. Click on and hold the Rotate icon
3. Move your mouse around to rotate the video
4. Let go when the video is in the desired position
5. Resize it to fit the borders of the scene

Exporting Your Video

Now that you’ve changed the positioning of your video successfully, you can export your video. Click on the green Export button in the top-right corner of the video editor. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be taken to the rendering screen. 

While the video is rendering, you can pick whether you want to download your video in:

• 720p
• 1080p

When the video is done, click on the Download button, and you’ll get it in the MP4 format.

If that’s all you wanted to do, you’re good to go. There are many more options that our video editing platform has to offer, so if you want to turn your video—or more of them—into an awesome project, you should check out what else InVideo can do.

Various Features That InVideo Has To Offer

InVideo Features

Our video editing platform provides an assortment of features that you can use to create engaging and professional-looking videos. You can find most of the features categorized in the left panel. Aside from the Upload tab that we’ve covered, the categories that the platform has to offer are:

• Media
• Music
• Text
• Stickers
• Shapes
• Effects
• Enhancers

Media and Music

When you go to the Media and Music tabs, you can browse through our extensive library of over one million songs, images, and videos that you can use in your project. This includes a vast assortment of premium media files. 

All of the media we’ve got to offer are royalty-free and provide plenty of top-notch options that can help you improve your video. 

Text

Click on the Text tab, and you’ll be able to add various kinds of text boxes to your scenes. This includes standard and premade text boxes. The latter type provides plenty of options, with categories such as:

• Modern
• Classic
• Astons
• Location boxes
• Social media credits
• Text styles

Click on any of the text box options to add them to a scene. When you select a text box within the video, you can customize it in the Edit menu to the right. Here, you can change colors, set up font options, add drop shadow effects, animate your text elements, alter color settings for the entire project, and more.

InVideo’s advanced text editing features are a great solution for adding captions to YouTube videos. You can set up engaging presentations and explainer videos. If you’re a music artist, check out how to make a lyric video using our platform.

Shapes and Stickers

You can add different kinds of stickers to your videos, from playful to more serious ones. For a business-related video, you can check out categories such as:

• CTA
• Corporate
• Business
• E-commerce
• Marketing
• Finance
• Social media

For more playful videos, you’ve got options such as pets, love, music, emoji, and animals. We also have stickers made for specific dates and holidays, including Halloween, Sisters Day, and Independence Day.

You can also include various shapes in your videos, categorized under solid, lines, outlines, transparent, etc.

Effects

Many kinds of videos can benefit from having some attention-grabbing visual effects. We’ve got various categories, including:

• Snow
• Smoke
• Confetti
• Light leaks
• Powder explosions

Enhancers

In the Enhancers tab, you can find some interesting features that can improve your video. This includes:

• Over 100 masks that you can add as scene overlays
• Several options to include Twitter and Instagram posts in your video
• Various collage layout settings for animating your scenes

Using InVideo’s Timeline

InVideo Timeline

InVideo’s timeline is where you can set up each of your project’s scenes and preview what they look like. You can create more scenes for your video by clicking on the Add Scene button and dragging the edges to set up the duration. 

When you click on the arrows that connect the scenes, you can set up transitions. InVideo provides a vast assortment of transition effects, including:

• Animations
• Overlays
• Light leaks
• Brushes
• Shutters
• Glitches

InVideo’s Intelligent Video Assistant

Click on the blue button with a triangle to activate our Intelligent Video Assistant (IVA). This feature relies on artificial intelligence to scan your scenes for various kinds of mistakes. The aspects that it pays most attention to are:

• Color
• Animation speed
• Text alignment

When you click the button, IVA will analyze your scene. If it spots any errors, it will alert you and suggest a solution. If you want to apply it, click on Resolve, and IVA will fix the problem for you. Choose Ignore if you want to solve it some other way yourself.

InVideo Advanced Timeline

You can also view your project in the Advanced Timeline by clicking on the appropriate button in the top-right corner. This kind of overview is in line with more traditional user interfaces. You can work with all the video elements as layers. 

Move any layer around to change how it looks in contrast to others. Some of the layers are locked, so you have to click on the lock to be able to manipulate them. You can also drag the edges of each layer to change their duration. 

You can go back to the previous timeline by clicking on the Basic Timeline button.

Adding Voice-Overs to Your Videos

Our platform enables you to add voice-overs to your videos. This is a fantastic solution for creating educational YouTube videos, such as guides and tutorials. Click on the Add VO button in the top-left corner of the timeline to start. You have three options:

• Record a voice-over directly
• Upload a media file you recorded earlier
• Generate a voice-over with text-to-speech

InVideo Automated Text-To-Speech Feature

With the automated text-to-speech feature, you can create a voice-over from any textual element in the video or by typing in your lines in the field at the top of the menu. Below, you can select a language and choose a voice that suits your video. InVideo provides a wide range of different voices, depending on the language you pick. Click on the play button next to each name in the menu to hear what it sounds like.

Click on the Generate VO button to create a voice-over based on your settings. When the text-to-speech feature generates your audio, you can hear what it’s like before you decide to use it. Click on Add VO to Scene when you’re done.

When you add a voice-over to a scene, you can loop and trim it, change the volume, and set up fade-in and fade-out effects.

Other Methods for Creating Videos With InVideo

InVideo Premade Templates

InVideo’s Premade Templates option enables you to create specific types of videos based on any of the solutions from our library. We’ve got more than 2,000 templates for a variety of purposes that you can customize any way you like. 

If you want to add an attention-grabbing intro to your video, you can use a template like Brand Intro or YouTube Intro. Let’s say that you’re creating a video for your marketing purposes. You can pick a solution such as:

• Content Marketing
• Social Media Marketing
• Autumn Sale
• App Marketing
• Limited Offer Ad

You can use the search bar to look up any template you need. Pick the layout for your videos—such as Facebook Story, Instagram Post, and YouTube Landscape—and then choose the template you want to work on. Click on Use this template to start customizing your video.

With our Text-to-Video option, you can use a link, script, or a selection of media files and convert them into scenes automatically. Aside from the regular editor, this option also enables you to work on your video in Storyboard mode. 

On the Storyboard screen, you can pay special attention to each scene. You can add, delete, duplicate, and rearrange scenes to fit your script or concept. For each line of text, you can set up whether it appears as a:

• Headline
• Question
• Social media post
• Story
• Listicle item

When you’re done setting up individual scenes, move to the Advanced Editor to create your video using all the features that InVideo has to offer.

Why You Should Use InVideo

One of the greatest benefits of InVideo is that it’s both a feature-rich and user-friendly video editing platform. The interface is simple to master, and you’ll be creating high-quality videos in no time. While many other video editors require hours, you can craft amazing videos with InVideo in under ten minutes.

If you come across any issues using our platform, you can rely on our 24/7 customer support. Open up the chat at any hour and type in your question. One of our agents will be on your case as soon as possible. We’ve also got an extensive collection of tutorials that can help you figure out any of InVideo’s features.

For such a robust video editor, you’ll find that InVideo’s pricing is surprisingly affordable. We offer two paid plans:

The difference is that you can export up to 60 videos and use up to 300 premium media files per month with the Business plan. The Unlimited plan—as the name suggests—has no restrictions.

We also provide the option to use InVideo for free forever. The free version has the same limitations as the Business plan, with the addition that all your exported videos will have an InVideo watermark. 

Whichever plan you opt for, you can use all the features that our platform has to offer.

Sign up for InVideo, and you can start creating top-notch videos right now!