Rotate Video Online

Upload a video, choose angle, preview, and export rotated output.

1. 1

   Add video

   Drop a video file or click to browse.

2. 2

   Choose angle

   Pick 90°, 180° or 270°, or choose Custom for a free angle. Flip horizontally or vertically at the same time if you need to.

3. 3

   Check the preview

   The preview shows the exported frame, borders included, so what you see is what you download.

4. 4

   Select output format

   Pick MP4, WebM, or MOV output. MP4 and MOV can turn without re-compressing.

5. 5

   Rotate

   Run rotation and wait for processing to finish.

6. 6

   Download

   Preview the result and download the rotated file.

Rotation fixes orientation mistakes, adapts footage for platform layouts, and helps present content correctly.

Rotate video by 90°, 180°, or 270° and fix orientation.

Compatible video in and out. Preset or custom rotation, preview before download, private processing.

Benefits of video rotation

• Fix orientation: Correct videos captured upside down or sideways.
• Platform fit: Adapt vertical and horizontal content for target channels.
• Creative control: Use angle changes for style and composition.
• Fast workflow: Adjust orientation without full video editing projects.
• Private processing: Rotate on your own device without uploading anything.

Turning a video by a quarter turn does not have to change a single pixel. MP4 and MOV files record the picture's orientation next to the picture itself, so a rotation can be applied by rewriting that one note and copying the compressed video across exactly as it was. Nothing is decoded, nothing is compressed a second time, and the file that comes out is identical to the one that went in, frame for frame, at the same size — in roughly the time it takes to read the file, whether it is 5 MB or 500 MB.

When the turn costs nothing

• 90, 180 or 270 degrees: these are the only turns an orientation note can describe. A free angle has to be drawn.
• Exported as MP4 or MOV: both carry the note reliably. WebM and MKV can store one, but too many players ignore it to depend on, so those are always drawn.
• No mirroring: a flip cannot be expressed as an orientation. Flipping both ways at once is the exception — that is a 180 degree turn, and it stays free.
• Same video format inside: the compressed picture is copied across as-is, so the container you export to has to be able to carry it.
• Not written into the picture: if you ask for the orientation baked into the frames, they have to be rebuilt.

When it is redrawn, and what that costs

• Every other rotation rebuilds the frames, which takes real time and compresses the picture once more.
• The tool aims at the bitrate your source actually used, so a rotated file does not come back larger than the original.
• The panel beside the button says which of the two will happen, and why, before you press anything.
• Both routes look identical when played — one stores the answer beside the picture, the other inside it.

The tool either rewrites the orientation your file records, or redraws every frame at the angle you asked for — and it tells you which, before it starts.

Rotation process

• Load video: Read the media source, its true display size and its orientation note.
• Choose the route: Decide whether this turn can be applied without redrawing anything.
• Apply transform: Copy the picture across, or redraw it at the requested angle.
• Preview: Review orientation and quality against the frame that will be exported.
• Export: Download the rotated file.

Useful points before export.

Key points

• 90 and 270 degree rotation swaps width and height.
• 180 degree rotation keeps dimensions.
• Quarter turns into MP4 or MOV copy the picture across untouched, so nothing is lost.
• A free angle redraws every frame, and adds borders unless you crop to fill.
• Flipping horizontally mirrors the picture; flipping both ways at once is the same as a 180 degree turn.
• A clip that already carries an orientation note can have it written into the picture instead.
• Output format choice affects compatibility, size, and whether the turn can avoid re-compressing.

Tips for better results.

Quality considerations

• Prefer 90, 180 and 270 degree turns into MP4 or MOV — they are near-instant and lose nothing at all.
• Preview the output before downloading; the preview shows the exported frame, borders included.
• Choose crop to fill when straightening a handheld shot, and a plain fill when every pixel matters.
• Write the rotation into the picture when the destination ignores orientation notes.
• Keep originals for safety when batch processing files.

Common use cases

• Mobile capture fixes: Correct accidental portrait/landscape orientation.
• Uploads that come out sideways: Write the orientation into the picture so nothing downstream has to read it.
• Social publishing: Adapt content layout for vertical or horizontal feeds.
• Front-camera footage: Flip horizontally so text and logos in shot read the right way round.
• Handheld straightening: Nudge a degree or two and crop to fill for a level horizon with no wedges.
• Course content: Normalize orientation across lesson videos.
• Screen recordings: Align orientation for presentations.

A quarter turn into MP4 or MOV rewrites the orientation the file records and copies the compressed picture across without touching it. Everything else decodes each frame, redraws it on your device's video hardware at the angle you asked for, and compresses it once — aiming at the bitrate the source actually used, so a rotated file never comes back bigger than the one it came from.

Steps

• Read: The file is opened and its true display size, orientation and bitrate are read from the header — no frames are decoded yet.
• Decide: The tool works out whether this exact combination of turn, flip, angle and output format can be done without redrawing anything, and says which it will be.
• Copy or draw: A free rotation copies the compressed picture across untouched. Everything else redraws each frame at the requested angle, hardware accelerated, away from the page so nothing stutters.
• Fit: The output frame is sized to hold the turned picture exactly — or, with crop to fill, to the largest rectangle of the original shape that sits entirely inside it.
• Check: The finished file is re-opened and measured before it is offered: real duration, real dimensions, and — for a free rotation — the same compressed picture it started with.
• Download: Save the output file locally. Nothing was uploaded at any point.

Quarter turns into MP4 and MOV finish in about a second whatever the file size, because nothing is compressed again. Everything else runs on your device's own video hardware.

• Video compressor
• Video resizer
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• Video cropper
• Video cutter
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