Rotate Video

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Click to upload or drag and drop

Video files only (Max 10MB)

ℹī¸ How it works:
  • Upload your video file
  • Pick a rotation: 90°, 180° or 270°
  • Download the rotated video

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Fix a video that came out sideways or upside down, or turn a vertical clip into a horizontal one. Upload it, choose how far to turn it — 90° clockwise, 180°, or 270° (which is 90° anticlockwise) — and a preview shows the new orientation before you commit. The sound is carried across untouched. No sign-up and no watermarks.

How to Fix a Video That Plays Sideways

  1. Click the upload area above or drag and drop your video (up to 10 MB).
  2. Choose a rotation angle — 90°, 180° or 270° — and check the preview.
  3. Rotate and download your video.

Key Features

  • Three angles – 90° clockwise, 180° (upside down), or 270° (90° anticlockwise)
  • Live preview – see the new orientation before downloading
  • Audio untouched – the soundtrack is copied across rather than re-encoded
  • Orientation baked in – the picture itself is turned, not just a tag on the file, so it looks the same in every player
  • MP4 output – plays on virtually any device

Turning a Vertical Video Horizontal or vice versa

A quarter turn swaps the frame's dimensions, so a portrait clip shot at 1080×1920 comes back as 1920×1080 — landscape, and the right shape for a TV, a monitor or a presentation. It works the same in reverse for making a landscape clip vertical. Worth knowing before you do it: rotating does not re-frame anything, so a video shot vertically will come out on its side rather than magically re-composed. It is the right fix when the footage was recorded in the wrong orientation, not when you simply want a different shape.

When You Might Need This

  • A phone video that plays sideways no matter which app opens it
  • A clip that looks fine on the phone but sideways on a computer
  • Footage from an action camera or dashcam mounted the wrong way up
  • A vertical video that needs to be landscape for a TV or a projector
  • A recording made with the phone rotated halfway through filming
  • A screen recording captured in the wrong orientation
  • Video from a drone or a mounted camera that came out inverted
  • Old footage transferred from a camcorder upside down

Frequently Asked Questions

Upload it, pick the turn that puts it the right way up — usually 90° one way or the other — and check the preview before downloading. If you are not sure which direction, try 90° first; if it ends up upside down instead of upright, 270° is the one you wanted.

Rotate it by 90° or 270°. A quarter turn swaps the frame's width and height, so a 1080×1920 portrait clip becomes 1920×1080 landscape. Which of the two you choose decides which way the content ends up facing, so use the preview. The same turn works in reverse to make a landscape clip vertical.

Because many phones do not actually rotate the picture when you film sideways — they record it as it came off the sensor and add a small rotation tag to the file saying which way up it should be shown. Players that read the tag display it correctly; players that ignore it show the raw, sideways footage. That is why the same file behaves differently in different apps. Rotating it here turns the actual picture rather than the tag, so the result looks the same everywhere.

Rotating turns the picture around, like turning a photograph on a table — the content stays the right way round. Flipping mirrors it, so text reads backwards and a person's left and right swap over. They are different jobs: use this page to fix orientation, and Flip Video to mirror. Note that 180° here is a rotation, not a flip: an upside-down clip comes the right way up, but nothing is mirrored.

The picture is re-encoded, because turning the frames means writing them again — so there is a small quality cost, the same as any single conversion. It is not visible in normal viewing. The audio is copied across untouched, so the sound is exactly as it was. If the video matters, rotate once from your original rather than rotating an already-rotated copy.

Use 90° or 270° for a sideways video (try one, and if it's still wrong use the other), and 180° for an upside-down one. The preview confirms it before you download.

The rotated video downloads as an MP4, which plays on almost any device or player.

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