Portrait video problems....

[Echthros]

Hey everyone. During a family vacation, I recorded practically everything with my iPhone 4 in portrait orientation, completely neglecting its end result on a television screen as I planned on making a movie with the footage.

Now, am I stuck with it in portrait or is possibly some method to flip it into landscape without losing too much quality using iMovie or some other type of editing software?

 

[Echthros]

Anyone?

 

[Small White Car]

iMovie will do this. Use this 'crop' tool.

The only problem is that you'll lose a LOT of your image. It will go from this:

To this:

I'd almost suggest just leaving it like it is. Extreme-vertical video is odd, yes, but at least you'll be able to see what you shot instead of having half of it cropped off of the screen.

Well, ok, actually I have a better idea. Crop it, but only halfway.

The original is too extreme:

But the fully cropped one is too close:

So split the difference and crop it a little bit:

That's probably your best bet.