Exporting to Instagram after editing

billkruse

If I upload video from my phone to Google Drive and from there to Insta, it plays sideways. I know, insta strips the display tags. So, I download from Google Drive to Videopad Pro and export as a video file, and then upload to Insta, and it plays ok. However, if I crop it in Videopad, then export either as video or as an Insta 16:9, Insta plays it sideways. How do I stop this please? It's driving me nuts, I tells ya!

borate

Try these AI suggestions...

Rotate the Clip Internally Before Cropping

Instead of just applying a crop to your timeline, you must force VideoPad to re-interpret the clip's physical aspect ratio first.

Import your video into VideoPad, but do not drag it onto the timeline yet

In the Clip Bin (where your imported files sit), right-click on the video clip

Select Rotate Clip and choose the correct rotation (90° or 270°) to make it stand upright in the preview window.
- Why this works: Rotating the clip directly in the bin tells VideoPad to hardcode the new orientation as the base file layout rather than just adding an effect tag on top of the timeline

Drag the video from the bin down to your timeline

Go to Options / Preview Format and ensure your sequence aspect ratio matches your intended target format (e.g., 16:9 for landscape, or 9:16 for vertical Reels/Stories)

Apply your Crop or Zoom effect now

Export the video as a standard video file

When you upload this newly exported file, Instagram will view the upright position as the "natural" state of the video pixels and won't flip it sideways.

billkruse

borate wrote:

Select Rotate Clip and choose the correct rotation (90° or 270°) to make it stand upright in the preview window.

It already stands upright. It's fine as it is. It's when I export it as a video file and try to get it to work on Instagram it has problems. No matter what I do, it plays sideways.

borate

Let's take a look at this file, before doing any manipulation in Videopad...

Upload the file to a free server, such as Google Drive or MS OneDrive, right-click the link and Share or Copy. Copy the result and paste it here or to me in a Private Message via the mail envelope in the top-right corner of this forum. When using Google Drive, right-click the file, then click SHARE | SHARE and change "restricted" to "anyone with link can view.**

billkruse

I don't see anything about restricted. It's already on Google Drive. I can't paste into the private message facility, I have no idea why. I can't paste into here either. Copy/paste doesn't work here either.

borate

If the file is already on Google Drive, right-click on it. Then click on SHARE and click the next SHARE bar, at the right.

At the bottom of the box the box that appears, in the General Access section, choose "anyone..." instead of "restricted."

Copy the address (the HTTP URL), then paste it into your reply here, or send 'borate' a private message via the envelope at the top-right of this page.

billkruse

No need; all done 🙂 I did it in Mixcraft, easy-peasy! Thanks for your help!