Probably, it’s not necessary to say that far from all videos published on the Internet, for example, on the same YouTube video hosting, do not always have a convenient orientation for viewing. This may be due to many factors. One of the key ones is shooting on a mobile phone with an incorrectly set angle in the form of a shooting angle. Simply put, when you flip the device, the camera saves the image in that position. How to turn the video in Windows Media Player of different versions or using third-party tools will be discussed later. But first you need to dwell on some important factors that may subsequently affect the choice of methods for changing the angle, so to speak, in a theoretical sense.
How to flip video in Windows Media Player in a classic way?
To begin with, any Windows operating system uses a built-in player to play audio and video, activated as the default default tool.
Previously, there were two such players in the systems, but then the Windows developers chose to refuse one of them, which was clearly not the best solution. Nevertheless, even in systems where the classic player was present, it was hidden so deep that the average user could not get to it. It wasn’t in the Start menu, and the player had to be called up exclusively from the Explorer or the Run console.
But even the remaining Windows Media Player allows you to flip the video quite simply. The most important thing that any user should understand is that the image can be rotated in any direction exclusively by an angle multiple of ninety degrees.
There are two ways to rotate the image. In the first case, it is supposed to call the context menu on the video being played through RMB with the choice of the appropriate action. The second option is to use the arrow keys with other buttons (depending on the version of the player itself, you can use the Ctrl, Alt or Shift keys) or set effects and filters, which many simply don’t know about.
When using laptops, the question of how to turn video in Windows Media Player is even easier, especially if the user has a specialized multimedia system. The rotation buttons can be moved to the main keyboard panel, not counting the use of combinations with the Fn key.
How to flip video in Windows Media using a classic player?
As for the classic player or media center, in the latest versions of Windows (the eighth and tenth) they are not. But this does not mean at all that these software packages cannot be installed as separate software. It is enough to download the distributions from the official Microsoft website and perform the subsequent installation on behalf of the administrator.
You can rotate the video in the Windows Media Player classic option in the same way as described above. However, if you enter the player’s settings, which deserve special attention, you can assign your own combinations of buttons and keys, which will continue to be responsible for turning the image right or left ninety degrees or one hundred and eighty. No, you can, of course, establish a turn at three hundred and sixty degrees, but what's the point of doing this? Such operations can be useful only in cases of image editing using effects that cannot be applied to the desired video.
Rotate an image using simple editing programs
The question of how to turn video in Windows Media Player could be considered completely resolved if not for a few additional solutions. Agree, not all household players of the “iron” type have the functions of image rotation in their arsenal. It’s inconvenient to watch the video upside down. So isn’t it easier to rotate the image initially and save it so that there will be no problems with playback in the future?
You can use the simplest programs like Movie Maker (in versions of systems above the seventh this application is not, and you need to install it separately), Windows Live movie studios (which is the same thing) or Pinnacle Studio. Run the program, then add the desired video, and use the rotation buttons on the top of the panel. As with the players, you can use the context menu commands. But the turn, again, will be a multiple of ninety degrees.
Rotate to other angles
As for turning to other angles, professional and semi-professional utilities are indispensable here. A novice user to understand the basics of video editing and deal with the settings at first will be quite problematic, especially when you consider that most of these software packages are not Russified.
On the other hand, you can try your hand at mastering Sony Vegas Pro. Despite the apparent complexity, this package even implies the use of the primitive actions that have been described for Windows applets. Start at least with the simplest, and the result will not be long in coming.
What to prefer as the optimal solution?
It remains to add that flipping the image in videos using software players is impractical if only because they do not always maintain its position. In third-party players, this function works much better. That is why the best option would be to initially change the orientation of the frame in some program. The problem of flipping the image in any player will disappear by itself.