Video shot in portrait show up as landscape?

Videos shot in portrait mode, downloaded and brought back on the iPhone through iTunes only play in landscape mode, with the top and bottom parts of the video cut off.
The small preview before you play it looks correct (portrait), but the playback is wrong (landscape). Any ideas how to correct this? The videos played correctly on the camera roll. Thanks.

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