About Rotate Video
Fix sideways or upside-down videos: recorded portrait when you meant landscape, or vice versa, without re-encoding the picture itself.
How rotate video works
Phones and modern cameras record sensor orientation into the file’s metadata rather than physically rotating the pixels. That’s why a video looks fine on your phone but plays sideways in a desktop player: the player ignores the metadata flag. Rotating the file properly means either flipping the metadata for compliant players (fast and lossless) or actually re-encoding the pixels so every player gets it right (slower but robust).
NextConvert offers both modes. By default we write a clean rotation that virtually every modern player respects, including web browsers, iOS, Android, and Premiere / Final Cut. If you need bulletproof compatibility, for example uploading to a CMS or sharing with someone using a very old player, you can opt into a re-encode that bakes the rotation into the actual pixels.
You also get flip operations alongside rotation: horizontal flip (mirror) for selfie-style fixes, and vertical flip for rare cases like a ceiling-mounted camera.
When to use it
Sideways phone video
You held the phone wrong; the playback is sideways. One click and it’s right-side up.
Selfie un-mirror
Front-facing camera flipped your text or hand gestures. Horizontal flip restores natural orientation.
Drone or action cam
Mounted upside-down? Rotate 180° in one pass instead of re-shooting.
CMS upload compatibility
Bake rotation into pixels for systems that ignore orientation metadata.
Supported formats
Input
Output
Step-by-step guide
- 1
Upload the video
We auto-detect existing rotation metadata and show you a preview of how it currently plays.
- 2
Choose rotation or flip
90° clockwise, 90° counter-clockwise, 180°, horizontal flip, or vertical flip. You can chain operations.
- 3
Save and download
Pick metadata-only (fast and lossless) or pixel re-encode (slower but universal). Download the corrected video.
Tips for the best result
- If the only player that shows it sideways is one specific app, try metadata mode first. It’s lossless and ten times faster.
- For YouTube uploads, either mode works. YouTube re-encodes anyway.
- Combine rotate with crop if the video was filmed at an awkward angle and needs reframing too.
Privacy and security
Files are uploaded to our processing servers over an encrypted connection and removed automatically after the job completes (usually within a few hours). We never share your media or train models on it. You can also delete a job manually at any time from your dashboard.
Read our full privacy policy for retention timelines and our list of subprocessors.