I’ve seen a few over the years.
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A Working Southern Cross Windmill
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That’s a very steep hill
Sure is. I made 6 of these sideways videos, not realising they would be show laying down. Silly me. 
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Use your phone for vertical videos. However some editing software will turn it upright. I am not sure if Shotcut does, you might even find YouTube will do it for you (don’t know)
This photo was taken 8th June 2024, since which it has had the restored sails refitted, going back in a couple of weeks so it can be captured in its full glory
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I took the liberty of downloading your video and playing with it - here is 30secs of it. Shotcut does the job but it is a bit fiddly
I will delete it when you have viewed
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That is a wind powered water pump and not a mill.
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We have windmills but as far as I know they are largely attractions for those with an interest in history, in other words not functioning in the true sense.
Jack and Jill are the nearest windmills to us up on The South Downs.
Not my photos of course but I really should take a hike up there during the summer and pay a visit.
We have a fond connection with windmills here in The UK!
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The company that makes them are called Southern Cross Windmills
Thank you for doing that. I will have a look at Shotcut now.
Wow. Terms and conditions ran to over 5600 words.
I think I will reshoot the video right way up.
Shotcut is free open source program. I’ve never read them but I suspect that the terms tell you that if you modify the program you must make the source code available to all.
Have you read the Youtube terms and conditions? - you give them the right to do almost anything they want with your video.
Fast rotating objects always look odd on camcorders because of the rolling shutter (the sequential way the vision is recorded)
Here’s a better video
All good. I went back and reshot the video in the correct manner.
About to upload it to youtube, then here.
Most likely about an hour plus.
Here is the same windmill right side up.
Taken from a different angle, through the trees.
Australia, being a drought prone country has many thousands of iconic Southern Cross Windmills across this wide brown land.
Since 1903, over 250,000 Southern Cross Windmills have been manufactured.
At the Gilgandra Museum in New South Wales a windmill is still operating 100 years after it was made.
Most windmills will have a water storage tank alongside.
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