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Rotate Video

Turn a sideways or upside-down video the right way up, or mirror it. Some detail is discarded to fit the target format; how much depends on the format and your settings.

Not uploaded to any serverConverted on this deviceGone when you close the tabHow this works

Drop your files here

MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM and 7 more formats · up to 512 MB each

or paste files from your clipboard

Ready when you are

Turn a sideways or upside-down video the right way up, or mirror it. Everything happens in this tab; nothing is sent anywhere.

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How to use it

1
Add your files
Rotate Video works with MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, TS, 3GP, FLV, WMV, MPEG and OGV. Drop them in, browse for them, or paste from your clipboard.
2
Choose your options
Tune codec, resolution and bitrate — or leave the defaults, which are sensible.
3
Run it and download
Press the button and save the result. Everything happens on your device, and nothing is uploaded.

Privacy, in plain words

Is it safe? Your video file is not uploaded anywhere

What “uploaded” normally means. On most online converters, pressing the button copies your file across the internet onto a computer owned by that website. That copy is what the word “upload” means, and it is the part nobody explains.

What happens instead. This site does not do it. There is no server here that receives files, so your video file is read, converted and handed back by the browser you are using right now. It never travels — so there is no copy to store, read, leak or hand over.

Check it yourself in ten seconds

Turn off your Wi-Fi after this page has loaded, then convert a file anyway. It still works, because everything needed is already on your device.

The longer explanation of how this works, and the full detail of what is and is not stored on the privacy page.

Why this matters more than it sounds

Video is the format where the thing being converted is usually a recording of people, and often of people who did not expect a third party to have a copy. It matters more than it sounds, because of what video files usually are:

Medical or therapy consultations

clinical recordings under strict handling rules

Unreleased footage

material under embargo or still being edited

Recorded meetings and calls

everything said, by everyone in the room

Interviews

sources and participants who consented to you, not to a website

A file that is never sent cannot be kept, leaked, subpoenaed or used to train anything. That is a property of how this works, not a promise about how carefully it is run.

Turning the picture, not just the label

Phones record in whichever way the sensor happened to face and add a small note to the file saying how it should be turned. Most players read that note; plenty of editors, websites and smart TVs do not, which is why a video can look right on your phone and sideways everywhere else.

This tool turns the actual picture. Every frame is redrawn at the new orientation and encoded again, so the result is the right way up in every player, whether or not it reads rotation notes. Mirroring works the same way — useful for selfie-camera footage where the text in the background reads backwards.

It re-encodes: Redrawing frames means a fresh encode, at the quality you choose. ‘Less compression’ keeps it visually identical; ‘Extreme compression’ makes it smaller as well.
Width and height swap: A quarter turn makes a 1920 × 1080 landscape clip a 1080 × 1920 portrait one. The sound is copied across unchanged.
Unusual formats come back as MP4: FLV, WMV, 3GP and MPEG inputs are written as MP4, which plays everywhere — the file name says so rather than keeping an extension that would be wrong.

About these formats

Accepts

MPEG-4 Part 14

The default video container of the internet.

Extensions: .mp4, .m4v
MIME type: video/mp4
Best for: Sharing anywhere · Streaming · Social media
Compatibility: Plays on effectively every device.

Accepts

QuickTime Movie

Apple's QuickTime container, common from iPhones and cameras.

Extensions: .mov, .qt
MIME type: video/quicktime
Best for: Apple ecosystem · Video editing
Compatibility: Excellent on Apple, patchy on Windows and Android.

The picture is re-encoded at the quality you pick, so the result plays the right way up everywhere — not just in players that read a rotation flag.

Good to know

Rotate Video — questions

How does Rotate Video work?

Turn a sideways or upside-down video the right way up, or mirror it. Add your files above, adjust anything you want to change, and press the button. The result downloads straight to your device.

Is there anything I should watch out for?

The picture is re-encoded at the quality you pick, so the result plays the right way up everywhere — not just in players that read a rotation flag.

Is Rotate Video safe — are my files uploaded to a server?

No, nothing is uploaded. On most online tools, pressing the button copies your file across the internet onto a computer owned by that website, where it is processed and then sent back. That copy is what "upload" means. This tool does not do it: your file is read and processed by the browser you are using right now, stays on this device the whole time, and is discarded when you close the tab. Turn off your Wi-Fi after the page loads and it still works, which is the quickest way to confirm it.

Can I use this on confidential or personal documents?

Yes — that is the case it was built for. Because the file never leaves your device, a confidential document is no more exposed than it is sitting in your own folder: there is no transfer, no copy on anybody else's hardware, no retention period and no staff with access. Nothing about the file is logged either — not its name, not its size, not its contents.