Your smartphone can be very useful along any part of your health journey. Having a constantly connected device in your pocket at all times can assist with you tracking your health. Both Google and Apple have built in applications, Health.app and Google Health, that assist in bringing apps together to monitor stats such as your daily calories burned, your weight, the amount of protein you've consumed, among a slew of other data. In this post I'm going to cover just a few of the many apps I use to help me live a healthier life.
Rotate video on iOS
The automatic rotation of the iPhone camera has issues sometimes, and you may end up with an awesome video looking like this after you've recorded it.
And while using another app to edit it and save it works, it may end up with it being placed into a different moment, or losing the original meta data from the video.
Thankfully I found a solution!
The iMovie app has an extension. And unbeknownst to me before, you can rotate video with it!
If you select the video you want to edit, you'll see a circle with an ellipsis in the center of it.
Once you tap the iMovie button, you'll see this screen.
It's not super clear, but if you take two fingers, and pinch and rotate them, you'll see this arrow pop up.
Voila! You now have your original video, in all its meta data filled glory. The next step is to just tap "Done".
iMovie will save the video in place (keeping all the original data etc), and your video will be properly horizontal.
The only downside to this is that if your video, like mine, was a slow motion video, you'll no longer be able to edit the points where it's slow. In that type of situation - I would duplicate the original video, and then rotate it using iMovie.
Small Steps
One of the biggest things you can do to help your personal health is just take little steps.
Most of the time – habits build upon each other. And snowball into a greater sense of personal wellness, simply by just finding out how things relate to each other.
I think one of the best things to start out with personal health is just being more aware of what you’re doing every day. Don’t go full out completely tracking calories or running a 5K. Start small: look at the nutrition labels on the majority of things you eat. Try to keep a mental tally in your head about what you’ve eaten, and how much of it you have.