A friend of mine has some tiny films that were made on the occasion of her wedding anniversary. The films were made by one of her brothers using his photo camera. On one of the little films he apparently switched the camera from landscape to portrait while shooting the film. Which means that when watching this one has to turn one's head sideways to the left...... I therefore would like to edit this film: cut it into 2 pieces. And turn the 'portrait-part' back to landscape.

Anyway, I have two questions:
1) Can one do that with film editing software?
2) Any suggestions on a good freeware programme that can help me do this?

Thanks all for your kind help!

if you're running vista, windows movie maker can do basic fixes like this. if you have windows 7, windows movie make (downloaded from microsoft) can convert it to 1080p high def. my test video came out looking pretty good

copy your video to a separate locations before you start or rename with different names in the same folder. if you make a mistake you'll still have your original video to try again with. what format is your video in now?
one thing with wmm, you need to do a lot of saving and maybe restarts if it starts becoming unstable

@OzSpitt: Thanks for the reminder to rename it first. Good one!
The video has an .mpg extension. It was taken with a photo camera.

@ whs: I'll give it a try! Thanks all for your input! Much appreciated!