these kanji are driving me insane 
I always tend to mix them up.
how do guys manage to remember them?
As far as transitivity goes, if a pair has one that ends with す, that one will be transitive.
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Here’s a really helpful video on that subject.
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映る and 映す use 映 from 映画, so it makes me think of an old school movie projector, where the reel is projected on the screen. I hear the clicking noise it makes as it starts up and spins. Thinking of a movie projector gets me to the word “projector” for the definition.
For 写す and 写る, it looks like the beggar is squatting on something, so I imagine him putting his bare ass on a copy machine and pressing the big green button to make a “copy.”
So that gives me the difference between 映 and 写. From there, as Leebo said, I’ve internalized the transitivity rules. Then unfortunately I don’t have a good one to get from “to copy” to “to be photographed,” that one just stuck naturally for me somehow.
I don’t actively use these to remember at this point, it’s just the imagery that pops into my head with these ones, but maybe it’ll help you!
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Let’s not forget 移る and 移す!
But yeah I think keeping the compound words in mind helps, as @Adrian0121 said. Keeping in mind things like 映画 and 写真.
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the hell. I’m not able to understand her/it whatever o_O
This post (comment) should cover just about everything in the video, and hopefully make it all even clearer:
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Have you tried turning the captioning (CC) on? It might help.
Good idea XD i always forget about the cc feature of youtube. Will try this
thanks guys I think I got it now 
very informative. it’s quite hard to follow because of her voice but I got the gist of it 
your analogy helped alot. thanks for Sharon
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