Rotate a Video
Fix sideways and upside-down videos permanently. Rotate by quarter turns and download — the rotation is saved into the file itself.
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This rotate video tool turns a video by 90, 180 or 270 degrees and saves the correction permanently — the fix for sideways phone footage and upside-down captures. Processed in your browser.
Where the player format supports it, rotation is written as metadata (fast and lossless); otherwise it is baked into the frames — either way, every player and platform sees the corrected orientation.
Why Use This Rotate Video Tool?
- Quarter-turn fixes for phone footage and screen captures
- Permanent — the correction survives uploads, editors and players
- Audio untouched — sound passes through unchanged
- Private — rotated in your browser, no upload
- Free, no signup
How to Rotate a Video — 3 Steps
- Drop your video into the box above and wait for the file details to appear.
- Pick the rotation — 90°, 180° or 270°.
- Press the blue Rotate Video button and download the corrected file.
Sideways Videos, and Why Some Fixes Are Fake
Sideways videos come from one of two places. Phones record sensor data and sometimes mislabel it, producing footage that plays sideways in some players and upright in others. Screen captures and older cameras store frames exactly as they arrive — sideways if the device was. Either way, the reliable fix is to write the correction permanently, which is what this tool does: choose 90, 180 or 270 degrees and the output file shows the corrected orientation everywhere it plays.
The distinction that matters: some "fixes" only change a viewing flag, and whether it sticks depends on the player. A rotation written as player metadata travels with modern players but is ignored by some uploaders and editors. This tool uses the strongest approach available per format — metadata rotation where the container supports it cleanly, baked-in rotation otherwise — so the result behaves consistently. If exact pixel-baked orientation matters for your pipeline, the output can be verified in any player.
Audio passes through untouched: rotating video never affects sound. And because a quarter turn may reuse the source stream where possible, some rotations complete faster than a full re-encode.
Everything runs in your browser with real progress on the bar. Nothing is uploaded — safe for unpublished footage.
Frequently Asked Questions
Try 90° or 270°: one of them sets it upright. If it is upside down, use 180°. The direction is clockwise.
When rotation metadata is used, not at all. When frames are re-encoded, the quality follows the selected setting — visually identical at normal settings.
Some rotations can reuse the video stream and only rewrite the container metadata — much less work than a full re-encode.
Audio is unaffected — it passes through unchanged.
Yes — the correction is part of the file, so platforms receive the video upright.
No — rotation runs in your browser and the download comes from your device.