What rotation angles are available?

You can rotate videos by 90 degrees clockwise, 180 degrees (upside down), or 270 degrees clockwise (equivalent to 90 degrees counter-clockwise).

Can I also flip the video?

This tool focuses on rotation. For flipping (mirroring), you would need to combine rotation with other editing operations.

Will rotation change the file size?

Rotation itself does not significantly change file size. The video dimensions swap (width becomes height and vice versa) but quality remains the same.

Why does my video need rotation?

Videos recorded on mobile devices are sometimes stored in landscape but tagged with rotation metadata. Our tool physically rotates the video for better compatibility.

Rotate Video – Free Online Tool

Rotate videos by 90, 180, or 270 degrees. Fix sideways or upside-down videos instantly.

Example Output

Rotates by 90° / 180° / 270° or any custom angle. 90/180/270 are lossless (metadata flag); arbitrary angles re-encode the frames.

Input

phone-clip.mp4 (1080×1920, recorded sideways)

Output

phone-clip-rotated.mp4 (1920×1080, rotated 90° clockwise)

What is Rotate Video?

Fix sideways or upside-down phone clips by rotating them by 90°, 180°, 270°, or any custom angle. The 90° presets are lossless — only the orientation metadata changes, with no re-encoding. Arbitrary angles render the rotated frames at full quality.

Why use this tool?

Your data stays private — all processing happens locally in the browser
No telemetry, no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts
Open-and-go: bookmark the page once and never look for an alternative
No video upload — clips of any length stay on your local machine
FFmpeg WASM means the same encoder that powers desktop tools, running in your browser

How to use

Upload your video file
Select rotation angle (90, 180, or 270 degrees)
Preview the rotated video
Click "Rotate Video" and download

Examples

Fix portrait → landscape

A clip accidentally recorded in portrait rotates 90° clockwise into a proper 1920×1080 landscape video in seconds.

Upside-down GoPro

A 180° flip corrects footage from a GoPro mounted upside-down.

Slight tilt correction

Enter 2.5° to straighten a slightly tilted clip — the tool re-renders frames and crops to remove the resulting empty corners.

Common use cases

Correcting sideways phone clips
Fixing flipped action-camera footage
Straightening tilted handheld shots
Standardising mixed-orientation footage before merging
Repurposing landscape footage as vertical (90° + crop)

Troubleshooting

Player still shows the video sideways: Some players ignore the rotation metadata flag. Pick "apply rotation by re-encoding" so the rotation is baked into the pixels and shows correctly everywhere.
Black bars after custom-angle rotation: Rotating an image by a non-90° angle leaves triangular gaps. Enable "auto-crop to fit" to remove them (slight zoom-in is unavoidable).
Aspect ratio looks wrong after 90° rotate: That's correct — 1920×1080 becomes 1080×1920. If you want to keep the original aspect, use the resize tool afterwards.

Frequently Asked Questions

No, rotation is a lossless operation that preserves the original video quality.

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