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My camera phone takes video in 3gp format. I've inadvertently taken a video sideways and want to turn it 90 degrees for upload to services such as YouTube and Facebook.

What software package can I use on Windows to do this, or is there another option? I've looked at the YouTube upload interface and it doesn't have an option to turn the video.

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  • After a bit of research I'm considering ffmpeg transpose ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#transpose but have to sit down with it to learn a bit more.
    – John K
    Oct 27, 2011 at 21:49
  • YouTube note: In fact, at this point in time, YouTube does allow a video to be turned on its side after it has been uploaded. The video is then reprocessed.
    – John K
    Oct 27, 2011 at 22:41

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You could use Windows Live Movie Maker, which is free with Windows Live Essentials. Here is a tutorial on how to do it.

It looks like Windows Movie Maker doesn't have native support for the 3GP format, but you should be able to download a CODEC for it.

For Mac users, iMovie is the equivalent.

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The following will flip a video 90 degrees clockwise:

ffmpeg -i input.3gp -filter:v 'transpose=1' -c:a copy \
-c:v libx264 -crf 22 -preset veryfast output.mp4

To flip it 90 degrees anti-clockwise, use 'transpose=2'. See the documentation for more information. Note that this will require a fairly up-to-date version of ffmpeg.

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