How to make a portrait video landscape?

Hi, I was making a video on my IPhone and I accidentally made it portrait instead of landscape. Is there anyway I can change it?

You can fake it, but you can't just rotate the video to fix it.

You need to crop or pad the video to "regular" landscape. Any editor should be able to do this for you, the commands of course will vary between software packages.

To "pad" a video means to use your vertical orientation footage, and add more pixels on both sides to fill out the horizontal frame. Similar to how you see SD video on an HD screen, with the vertical black bars on the sides.

Cropping means you would lose a large portion of the recorded image, but you can crop any section of the video to "normal" view. You can do it frame by frame if you want, but that would be extremely tedious, and very hard to watch.

The best option is to pad the video out to fill the screen properly.

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