Shotcut Tutorial: Rotating Video
Channel: Shotcut
Date: 03/03/2020

Since version 21.12 there is a Rotation in Properties to simply rotate the video by some multiple of 90 degrees. This is faster and more like an override for a video that is missing its orientation metadata. The technique in this video is still very helpful if you want to see how to put vertical video in a wide aspect video. See also the Pillar Echo filter to help with that.

Shotcut is a free, cross-platform, open source video editor: https://shotcut.com

This video explains some ways to deal with a video shot initially in portrait or vertically then rotated to landscape (wide) in the middle of the recording.