Taking Video With The iPhone: A Real "You Can't Hold It That Way"

[Zinger314]

Seriously, who's bright idea was it to have the video camera to output video to the computer (via copying the .mov file) at the proper orientation *ONLY* if you hold the iPhone landscape and hold it such a way that the home button faces the right?

There is zero documentation that tells you this aside from copying a priceless video to your computer and noticing that it's upside down. As was the case with me. :\

I've heard that if you import to YouTube via the iPhone itself, it will upload in the correct orientation. But that downscales videos with the iPhone 4, who would seriously do that?

 

[winstano]

Erm... What?

I just shot a couple of test videos to verify this, and the orientation flipped the right way for each one...

 

[spblat]

Huh? @Zinger314 your post does not appear to comport with the available facts.

 

[Zinger314]

Erm... What?

I just shot a couple of test videos to verify this, and the orientation flipped the right way for each one...

On the iPhone it works OK but not on the computer. Edited for clarity.

 

[spblat]

Videos shot in portrait mode and with the home button on the left are playing properly on my computer when copied from my iPhone 4.

 

[winstano]

Non-issue. Stand on your head.

 

[Zinger314]

To confirm I'm not crazy, I just took a video w/ Home at left, and used VLC to play it while connected. Upside-down

 

[spblat]

Does the interface show that it "knows" the orientation of the phone? Could you have accelerometer problems?

 

[nohite]

Maybe the OP had his orientation locked when he was shooting the video?

 

[spblat]

Maybe the OP had his orientation locked when he was shooting the video?

Nope. Orientation lock has no impact on camera response to orientation.

 

[ryuuzaki]

Seriously, who's bright idea was it to have the video camera to output video to the computer (via copying the .mov file) at the proper orientation *ONLY* if you hold the iPhone landscape and hold it such a way that the home button faces the right?

There is zero documentation that tells you this aside from copying a priceless video to your computer and noticing that it's upside down. As was the case with me. :\

I've heard that if you import to YouTube via the iPhone itself, it will upload in the correct orientation. But that downscales videos with the iPhone 4, who would seriously do that?

You're joking right? You can't do that with ANY camera as the lens is stationary. Go out and buy any HD camcorder, or point and shoot and you'll find that you CANNOT take video that way.

I understand you may have inadverdantly held it in the improper fashion and yes perhaps they should tell people "yeah hold the phone like this to take proper recording" but you can't expect it to flip with you. That's too crazy.

 

[spblat]

I understand you may have inadverdantly held it in the improper fashion and yes perhaps they should tell people "yeah hold the phone like this to take proper recording" but you can't expect it to flip with you. That's too crazy.

Actually, you can. Because it does.

 

[palmerc2]

Non-issue. Stand on your head.

That made me laugh. Hahahaha.

As a simple fix, flip it so the home button is on the right side. Done. End of discussion.

If you already have a vid on your computer that can't be replaced, get a video editing software and rotate it. QuickTime may be able to do it but not sure.....

 

[Zinger314]

I understand you may have inadverdantly held it in the improper fashion and yes perhaps they should tell people "yeah hold the phone like this to take proper recording" but you can't expect it to flip with you. That's too crazy.

If it didn't change orientation I'd be a little more forgiving.

If you already have a vid on your computer that can't be replaced, get a video editing software and rotate it. QuickTime may be able to do it but not sure.....

That's another one of my complaints: working with .mov is not fun, but I suppose that can't be avoided.

 

[Zinger314]

Actually, as a test, I played the video with Quicktime, and it worked correctly. WTF?

 

[JayDude132]

then just rotate the orientation of the video when you put it on your computer.

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