Turn sideways or upside-down footage the right way up. The rotation is baked into the pixels, so it holds on every player and every platform — not just the one you tested in.
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MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV — up to 100MB
Free, no account needed, no watermark. Free tier: unlimited · max 100mb.
Unlimited · max 100MB
Example Output
Rotated 90° clockwise with a true pixel re-encode. The rotation is in the picture, not in a metadata flag a player can ignore.
How It Works
Any MP4, MOV or WebM that is playing the wrong way up.
90° clockwise, 90° counter-clockwise, or 180°. The preview shows the result immediately.
The rotation is written into the picture itself, so it cannot be ignored downstream.
Video files carry a rotation flag — a note in the file's metadata saying 'display this turned 90 degrees'. Phones set it constantly, because the sensor records in one orientation regardless of how you held the device. When it works, the video looks upright.
The problem is that honouring the flag is optional. Some players read it, some ignore it, and some platforms strip metadata during their re-encode. So a video that looks correct in QuickTime uploads sideways to Instagram — same file, different reader, different answer. Fast rotation tools that only flip the flag inherit this problem completely.
A real rotation re-encodes the video, physically moving every pixel to its new position, and clears the flag. The file is then unambiguous: there is no instruction left to ignore, because the picture is already the right way up. It takes longer, and it is the only fix that holds everywhere.
Why Use This Tool
The picture is genuinely re-encoded, not flagged. No player can ignore it.
90° clockwise, 90° counter-clockwise, and 180° for footage recorded upside down.
Re-encoded at high quality, so rotation costs nothing you can see.
Nothing is added to the picture.
Confirm the direction is right before you commit to the encode.
Up to 100MB per file, no account.
Your phone is honouring the file's rotation metadata flag; the platform is not, or it stripped the flag while re-encoding. The picture itself was always sideways — only the instruction to turn it was there, and the instruction is optional.
It requires a re-encode, which is theoretically lossy, but at the quality settings used here the difference is not visible. It is a far better trade than a rotation that does not survive upload.
Only by setting the metadata flag, which is exactly the fix that fails on upload. If the rotation has to hold everywhere, the pixels have to move.
Rotate 180°. That is a different operation from two 90° turns in practice, and it is offered directly.
It will change the frame's dimensions, yes — but the content will be on its side. Rotation fixes orientation errors. Converting landscape content to vertical is cropping, which is a different tool.
100MB per file, with no limit on how many you do.
Orientation errors multiply. Get one wrong at ingest and every clip cut from it inherits the problem. ShortsHero normalises orientation when the video is first brought in, so it is fixed once rather than fifteen times.
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