Rotate video online
Rotate a video left or right, flip video files, and mirror clips horizontally or vertically.
Every video app in one place
Pick an app, drop your file in, and download the result. No account, no install, no watermark.
Why rotate a video here
Three fixed angles, no guesswork
Turn the picture 90, 180 or 270 degrees clockwise. Those are the angles the engine accepts, so there is no slider to nudge and no crooked result to undo.
Mirroring is a separate choice
Flipping a clip horizontally or vertically is its own setting, so you can mirror a video without rotating it, rotate it without mirroring, or do both in one pass.
Nothing to install
The rotation runs on our servers over an encrypted connection. There is no software to download and no account needed to use it.
Rotate to the left or to the right
The rotation is measured clockwise, which is all you need to think about: 90 degrees puts a clip filmed on its left side upright, 270 degrees does the same for one filmed on its right, and 180 degrees turns an upside down recording the right way up.
The setting starts on No change, so a video you only want to flip or convert passes through with its orientation untouched. Whatever angle you pick applies to the whole clip from the first frame to the last.
The rotate control sits in the settings panel beside the uploader.
Flip and mirror
Mirroring is not the same thing as rotating. A horizontal flip swaps left and right, which is what fixes selfie footage where text reads backwards. A vertical flip swaps top and bottom, so the picture is reflected rather than turned.
Both live in the same panel as the rotation, and both default to leaving the video alone. Combine them with an angle when a clip is turned and mirrored at once, and the two are applied in a single conversion instead of two round trips.
What you can upload, and what you get back
MP4 is what most people bring, and it is far from the only format that works. MOV from an iPhone, AVI, WEBM, MKV, WMV, FLV and the rest are all rotated the same way, and you can add several files at once: each one comes back as its own video with the same settings applied.
The output is MP4 unless you say otherwise. The panel's Output Format select also offers 3G2, 3GP, AVI, FLV, MKV, MOV, OGV, WEBM and WMV, so the same job can turn a clip upright and change its container in one step.
You can also paste a link instead of uploading, or pull the file in from cloud storage. Rotating is free, needs no account, and the servers that do the work are in Europe.
How to rotate a video?
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Upload
Upload your video. It can be an MP4, MOV, AVI, WEBM or another format.
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Choose an angle
Pick 90, 180 or 270 degrees clockwise, or leave the rotation on No change.
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Flip or mirror
Optionally flip the video horizontally or vertically as well.
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Rotate
Click on "Start" to start the rotation.
Questions about rotating video
Will rotating lose quality?
Turning the picture means the video is encoded again, so a small amount of quality is spent on that pass. It is nothing like the loss you get from compressing to a small target size, and on a single rotation it is usually not visible.
Why does my video look sideways in some players only?
A phone often records upright footage as a sideways picture plus an orientation flag, and not every player reads that flag. Rotating the picture itself and saving a new file removes the ambiguity, so the clip looks the same everywhere.
What is the difference between rotating and flipping?
Rotating turns the whole frame around its centre by a fixed angle. Flipping mirrors it, either left to right or top to bottom, which is what you want when text in the shot reads backwards. Both are separate settings and can be used together.
Which video formats can I rotate?
MP4, MOV, AVI, WEBM, MKV, WMV, FLV and the other common containers. The video comes back as MP4 by default, and the settings panel can save it as 3G2, 3GP, AVI, FLV, MKV, MOV, OGV, WEBM or WMV instead.
Can I rotate several videos at once?
Yes. Add as many as you like and each is rotated separately with the same settings, then returned as its own file.
Does it cost anything?
No. Rotating a video here is free and does not require an account. A paid plan raises the upload limit and how many files you can process at once.
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