Windows Essentials

Movie Maker file reverting back to original orientation after saving to my computer as mp4 file.

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Archived post from July 26, 2014. Product: Windows Essentials – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Jul 26, 2014

Hello All,

I have just completed my first movie in Windows Movie Maker on Windows 8, which lasts for over an hour and incorporates over a hundred small video clips I have taken using my iPhone and my camcorder.

The issue I have is with the orientation of some of the clips - where clearly I must have recorded footage holding my phone the wrong way round. I have created the movie maker presentation and through the course of creating it I have clicked on the rotate image/clip button which appears to have worked perfectly fine for when I play the movie back in the movie maker programme.

However the problem has occurred when I have then completed the project, saved the footage to my computer, which I believe in turn converts the file to an MP4 file. I have played the mp4 file and a large majority of my files have all reverted back to their incorrect orientation! Grr!!

How can I resolve this issue?

It has taken me over two weeks to complete the video (many of the clips have had to be cropped etc) and I wanted to get it placed onto DVD asap to give as a present. How can it be fixed?

Thanks for your help.

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