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Video Rotator was available as a giveaway on December 15, 2012!
Video Rotator is a Windows application for rotating video clips 90 degree clockwise, anticlockwise, horizontal mirror or upside-down. The program supports more than 15 popular video input formats includes AVI, MPG, FLV, MP4, WMV, MOV and 3GP etc.
Video Rotator allows users to save the rotated videos to 5 popular video formats: MP4, AVI, MPG, FLV and MOV. The program supports batch mode so that users are able to rotate and flip videos in bulk.
Windows XP/ 2000/ 2003/ Vista/ 7/ 8 (x32/x64)
13.6 MB
$19.95
This type of software is very useful when dealing with videos taken with your cell phone as many times the rotation throughout can change. Having said that, the software lacks the ability to edit by cutting. Most often videos which need rotating will have the need to rotate in different directions. For instance, a clip may begin needing to be rotated 90 degrees to the right with another portion needing to be rotated in a different direction. Without the ability to cut and merge the software's functions are severely limited.
Another lacking feature is the ability to author videos for playing on some home dvd players. However, as new devices emerge, the span of playable formats are ever more increasing as well depleting the need for authoring all together. There are better alternatives available which will perform all needed functions.
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This does nothing other software does for free. The software that comes with your monitor probably does this. Mine will...I guess for stupid cell phone videos that nobody wants to see anyway. Add for the record...for all the people that just can't sit up or tilt their heads...won't a 90 degree turned video look really crappy on the WIDE screen TV most people have nowadays?? Wow.
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Testimonial from International Space Station Commander
We astronauts tend to float in various positions in Zero G, so it's a constant hassle continually reorienting the ISS for optimum viewing of monitors. Inevitably, someone in one cabin or another starts yelling that their picture's flipped. This software has dramatically reduced the fighting, sore feelings and short sheeting of bunks.
Now, if we could only swallow these protein pills upside down.
Major Tom
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Seems like a product that would be useful to be take videos with cell phones and per them these wideos need to be rotated! Noticed some joked about rotating sideways for when lying down! Out of curiosity I rotated a video I got off you tube to see what it would be like! For people bed ridden and lying on side my rotated video looks good! For rest of us it could useful making joke videos! NOTE - I downloade a 13 mb flv video and rotated it and converted it to high quality mp4 - the file was 64 mb and seemed to be of same quality aand sidewise! Interesting toy!
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My daughter takes videos with her iPhone and posts them to Facebook. Others do as well, and if the video was taken in landscape mode and posted to facebook it will be sideways. So software like this allows you to rotate the video so when it gets posted to Facebook it will be viewable the way it should be. Most players can rotate video for correct playback on the computer that the video resides on. That isn't the issue here. This software fixes the problem of having sideways vido on websites that the video was posted to.
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Ok, so you cannot see a need for this software, so you trash it. How childish. Let me give you a reason why you might need this software. Be creative. When you use a still camera, you usually turn the camera sideways in order to take a portrait shot, ie. "portrait" vs "landscape" on your camera. Newer cameras (my new Canons) will also orient a video correctly, but my older Minoltas & Cannons will not. So why use an older camera & not a new one? In a club full of people videoing a single performer (say the lead guitarist, singer etc.) your equipment can be damaged. New equipment, very sad... older stuff that still works well.... not so sad. On my shoots I use older equipment for video on tripod(s)horizontally while using a newer equip for vertical video & newer dslrs for the photos. So in brief, YES, this will work for me, I don't have to potentially sacrifice new equipment for the vertical videos. Thanks
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It won't register. I past in serial # says restart program.When I do it comes back as unregistered.GOTD activation page came up.Still unregistered.
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mirroring the video is useful for some projection systems when there's a physical mirror involved, and the projector is not being driven by a computer but some stand-alone device like a DVD player (or in my case, a DVD player that plays movies off SD cards). And no, my projector doesn't have a mirroring switch to do it in hardware.
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DVDVideoSoft Free Studio does permit rotation, but output quality is MUCH worse than original. I'm looking for some soft just to rotate my videos I recorded with a phone and I hope this program helps me.
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Thank-you everyone for many of the comments I found helpful. Specific comments about GAOTD offerings and comparisons to other software are helpful to the developer. I would like to see childish sniping toned down.
Along with several others, my first reaction to this software was "Why would anyone want to take a perfectly oriented video and rotate it?" -- then realized that I may want to watch a video while lying in bed, and I'd certainly want to rotate a video taken from a cellphone cam or iPad that wasn't held properly or the orientation was incorrect to begin with.
Secondly, to the developer: why would anyone want to spend $19.95 for such software that has a singular purpose with only the ability to convert to the limited number of 5 formats? I would gladly pay $19.95 for (the free) Format Factory with umpteen conversion options and the ability to rotate videos; have you done an assessment of your competition before making such a offering?
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Just like Eddie (No.6) i'm curious if it has to encode the whole clip again or not.
I'd find it pretty useful for being able to bring portrait videoclips into normal widescreen video editing projects, but I want to keep the original quality of the clip.
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#19 BEST Answer
2nd best answer = rotating video captured at wrong angle
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I commonly rotate my camera if the subject matter is better captured by a tall, skinny video(portrait) instead of a short, wide video (landscape) - - - just as I do with my still photos.
Don't know why this isn't obvious to so many commenters.
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Thanks! very useful to amuse my students while explaining complicated issues. Thanks videorotator & GAOTD
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I would think this product might be useful when one is using a small DV spy camera, such as within a watch, for example. It is not always easy to keep a spy camera in a position that looks normal and at the same time correctly oriented for normal video.
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ASHRAF is back !!!!!!!!!
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Will this work in real time using a live video feed?
As an example- in an RV without a backup camera, you could use any video feed (webcam or inexpensive wireless camera), and reverse the video feed to view on a small laptop to use as a video rear-view mirror.
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To answer many questions here as to WHY!
I fly gliders, and regularly take aerial video from cameras strapped to various parts of the aircraft.
This way you get launch shots, landing shots, pilot shots etc, and on many occasions, depending which way up you mount the camera and tilt the lens, the result is very often upside down.
Such software as this is essential if you don't have Adobe Premiere, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas etc., installed. I use them all, for different effects, but it is quite easy to get inverted video, and this program would solve that issue.
There are also many cheap tiny video cameras for mounting on cars, and bikes, or sporting helments, and sometimes, because of the mount, it is safer to be fixed upside down.
Don't knock it because you can't think of a reason - there are many!
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Really, you guys are sad. If YOU don't see a need for someting, you trash it? I make animated advertizing - mostly in camtasia. Having the ability to flip and rotate a logo, for example - then I can intergrate that into my anitmation as a component.
I'll be happy to try this and give it a fair review.
You nay-sayers should go do something else today
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Just what I need for my Ipad thanks...not sure I would pay 19.99 with all the free ones but this free today :)
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Oh boy! Wohoo! Now I can do totally cool things like turn my video upside down. I am SO psyched to do this, I might just spend the $20 to buy this thing. Wow!!!
Actually, no, I am NOT so psyched to do this; having absolutely zero need for this sort of thing. SERIOUSLY?? Let's review the discussed purposes: Too lazy to lift one's head? Correct for a camera person who somehow recorded things upside down?
Wow, alright, but SO not in a good way.
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#25 Get off your high horse. Ashraf has always been a great reviewer and I look forward to reading his input.
I think you should stick to reviewing the program not the person.
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http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Video-Flip-and-Rotate.htm
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Free Video Flip And Rotate, Good product
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Why would I want to rotate video?
Well, the clip that holds my phone in my car gets in the way of the shot when when oriented correctly.
When the camera is held upside down, the view is unobstructed.
So that is why why I want to invert my video.
Clear enough for you visionmaster??
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#5 - Sometimes I record horizontally, sometimes vertically using my phone. When I record horizontally, the videos sometimes play back sideways. Don't understand why because it doesn't happen every time. This will take care of that.
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Like #5 said why would a person want to do this? Now if it would do a reverse, that would be cool. If I had a video of a person going down a slide I could reverse it. I don't care to see it upside down and side ways.
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@ #5 visionmaster
Some people might shoot a video with their camera. when they load it into their editing software, the software program may not have the ability to rotate a movie, as it always does with a photo. For example the popular and free Windows Live movie maker does not rotate videos (unless this has changed recently).
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@visionmaster
one might like to rotate a video if one has a simple camera and held it sideways.
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#6 Sometime I take video with my phone in portrait mode - shows up sideways on the monitor.
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Stunningly pointless software tagged with a fast-buck price as if to make it seem it actually has some value.
Whilst I personally have no more desire to watch a video upside down than I have to drive a car upside down, there are some rare -- very rare -- times in semi-pro movie editing when altering the visual geometry can achieve a strangely disorienting effect.
However. . . rotational effects are always, but always, better applied to a still image / single frame and then cut into a video sequence. (Which is why so many so-called DVD Slideshow programs offer the spinning - turning - inverting facility.)
Today's program is pitched largely on the basis that if, for some unfathomable reason, you've finished up with an upside-down video and want to watch it the right way up, then Video Rotator is the $20 niche product for this niche requirement.
But it isn't. The eminently capable and entirely free VLC Player, from the Open Source development project VideoLan, does everything anyone could ever dream of in manipulating video playback:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
VLC Player is easily downloaded and installed, after which it's a case of playing any video you like, in any format it might happen to be, and then hitting the pause button and going to Tools / Effects and Filters / Video Effects and the Transform and/or Rotate controls you'll find there.
I'm usually prepared to give software developers the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their commercial products because in a sector as dynamic as this, it's quite possible to be unaware of some recently authored app or program which does the same thing you've just spent a lot of time, working on yourself.
No such charity in this case though. The developer will be as aware of the existence of the VideoLAN project, and VLC Player, as millions of other computer users around the world -- VLC Player is anything but new -- yet is trying to sell this regardless.
As for incorporating a basic converter with serious format limitations (and this really is basic: lossless conversion of video is difficult to achieve anyway but the results from conversion with this software are in a whole new world of trashiness), words fail: it's as if the developer realises the inadequacy of what is being offered for $20 and is desperately adding in a bolt-on element to justify that price tag.
Thanks, GAOTD, but no thanks.
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I used to use VLC player, but it kept screwing up. Then I found
UM Player, which I consider 100% better than VLC player. If you need to convert CELL PHONE VIDEOS to watch on you computer, then use
UM Player. UM Player will play anything, and if you need to rotate videos, like cell phone videos, just click on the tab, and click on how much you want to rotate and it's done for that video permanently, unless you change the rotation again. You can also loop videos. I get videos of my grandchildren from 1600 miles away, and I rotate them 90 degrees, then loop them to play over and over again. UM Player, try it.
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I've found that most of the time when video is flipped it's because of a codec problem.
I could see a use for this if someone was using their monitor sideways to get the top-to-bottom length so that it displays like a printed page, but in that case Windows would automatically adjust.
The only other situation I could see is where a video camera is tilted while filming resulting in a sideways picture. But that's a feature that is best as part of a package and not something on it's own.
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it probably doesn't phone home as much, as last I heard freemake overdid that. a lot.
Today's Giveaway of Video Rotator is version 1.07, but on 2012-10-11 version 1.0 was released at ..w.freewarefiles.com/Video-Rotator.... as freeware, and 1.0 is still available on the "freewarefiles mirror", for now.
the program does about as described. and reasonably well, but really - how often will most folks need it?
there's DVDVideoSoft's Free Video Flip and Rotate 2.1.5.1223
or
XMedia Recode 3.1.3.7
that I know of, and Giovanni ought to be along with more soon.
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Why would one want to rotate videos? So you can watch while laying down?
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@visionmaster Well, one reason for wanting to do this could be that you stupidly treated your camcorder like a stills camera and decided to film in portrait instead of landscape to fit in the subject due to restricted space only to find out you had no way to rotate the video afterwards....
Yes, I was dumb enough to do this early on. I hope this software works as described because then I can salvage those clips.
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I have some videos that I recorded on my Smartphone that was turned sideways to frame the subject better. When viewed on the PC, these videos are sideways. So yes, there are uses for a video tool like this.
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OK, I have been looking for a program like this for a while.
When my wife makes videos with her phone, she has a habit of turning the phone sideways, so the videos all come out sideways.
I downloaded this program, not expecting too much, but it works great!
I converted a couple of videos and am very pleased with the result.
The program even lets you choose the output format of the video, so if you have a cell phone video, and want it to convert to MP4, MPEG, AVI, MOV, or FLV, it will do that while it flips the video.
The program converted and flipped the test videos with no problem or visible loss of quality.
I highly recommend this program.
The only issue was when I went to register it with the key code provided, a popup window came up that was looking for payment, or a discount coupon. I started filling out that and realized it wasn't what I was supposed to use, so I closed it, and the registration window was behind it. I pasted the key and everything was fine.
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Curious that so many of you have not recorded a video in portrait and would prefer to heave it saved as landscaped.
Great program... sure ...niche audience
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About the only reason I could see using this is to lay on my side as I watch a DVD in bed. Which, by the way, is not listed as a popular format. What do I do when I want to rollover to my other side?
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@Ashraf, #1:
Nice to see you back here once in a while. I just read your review and something strikes me.
The main purpose is to rotate videos. That will even be the reason it is called Video Rotator. We both do agree on that I think.
Quoting you "The main propose of this program is to flip and rotate your videos...you know...in case you ever wanted to watch your favorite videos upside down."
Either you ridicule the purpose or you're just joking for the fun of it, so let's read on to discover which you meant.
Then you tell us why the purpose of rotating a video is something one could be in need of "Maybe you recovered something on your phone, and when you moved it over to your computer you found you needed it rotated." But you still don't get this to be something very useful, every price (at least $19.95) is too much for this.
Well that is something I don't agree with. When you use a digital photocamera you sometimes make your pictures landscape orientated ans sometimes portrait orientated. You can get quite accustomed to that.
Most modern digital pphotcamera's are also able to record a little video. It will be very tempting to handle your camera the same way as wehn you make pictures. You see something long and high and you like the composition more by turnig your camera in portrait position.
When you watch the video taken in portrait position you will not turn your TV, monitor or whatever medium to watch the video so easily as you do with a photograph. Here video rotator kicks in, you can correct your vidoe by turning it the way you want and shout be able to watch it. This is a very useful purpose!
Most software to represent pictures are almost always able to rotate, but software to represent video is not always (yes I know, some do) able to do that. In those cases you would very much welcome a tool like video rotator.
You were creative enough to see a secundary use for the tool "The good news, and possibly the most useful feature, is the fact that the program can convert videos." Because I think rotating is very useful I don't agree that this secundary more or less improper converter-use is the most useful feature. That's also why it is not just called converter but rotator.
From now you consider video rotator more as a converter and because "it can only convert to 5 popular movie formats" it is a rather meager converter. The rotator is scored as a converter and the conclusion is that it is a too limited converter.
This was probably not one of your best reviews I guess, which I always try to read by the way.
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#5:
Imagine this - I know it's hard when you have the mental capacity of a teaspoon, but please try... Imagine you have a video... Said video is already rotated 90 degrees, or maybe even upside down!
Now, what do you do when you want to watch it? Rotate your monitor to match the video? Or do you use some software to rotate the video for you?
I'm fairly sure you understand where I'm getting at...
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@5 The only reason I can see to rotate a video, and one I've used myself, is when you set your video camera up to record portrait format as against landscape which has proved the norm for any video camera I've used, when web cams.
Though I use a free program that I cannot find, nor remember it's name but it's one that allows various filter effects as well as crop, rotate, blurs and all sorts rather than this one, but it's nice to know that VLC will also rotate a video.
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Format Factory.
Need anything else be said?
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DITTO # 5!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm not necessarily endorsing this program, but maybe people would want to watch a video while lying down in bed.
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Come on #5, why rotate video? I want to remake one of my buddy's DVD videos and then when he plays it on his DVD player it will be upside down. Tell him I think his DVD player is broken. Now I think that will be a cool and maybe the only use for this. It is worth every penny of what I am paying for it today. I could never see myself buying this one.
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Honestly I can't figure out why one would be eager to pay 20 bucks for a pretty useless app like this: what's the purpose of changing the video orientation of a movie?
At least the developer of this GAOTD could provide users with more advanced options for the video conversion side.
THUMBS DOWN fro me!
BEST FREE ALTERNATIVES
If for some odd reasons you absolutely need a tool to rotate or flip your video files, you can do that using FREE VIDEO EDITORS like the award-winning freeware AVIDEMUX or a specific program like this:
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Video-Flip-and-Rotate.htm
As for VIDEO CONVERTERS to use, in order to convert your ripped DVD/Blu-ray disk in whatever else format you like, besides the ones mentioned above by Ashraf, I recommend you trying these FREE GEMS:
* Free CUDA Video Converter
http://www.cuda-soft.com/video-converter/index.htm
* (Portable) XMedia Recode
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Video/Portable-XMedia-Recode.shtml
* Hamster Free Video Converter
http://www.hamstersoft.com/free-video-converter
My 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002 cents!!
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I've been looking for software that could do this for a while. As a videographer there have been many times when I turned my camera on it's side to get a different angle or to get a tall shot on my video, but until now I haven't been able to run the video any way but sideways, now with this I can get more creative in my video's.
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I haven't downloaded the software and I've no idea if it's any good, but hey, there are many reasons for you to rotate videos. Have you guys heard of cell phones? Well they allow you to make videos and sometimes you just find out you recorded your video upside down or that it's vertical instead of horizintal... I see a software like this could be useful for such cases... Plus, I understand it allows video horizontal mirror, which many TV channels use when they don't want brand names written on the walls to be immediately recognized... Once again, I've no idea if the program is any good, but gee... Do you have to be so negative?
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