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Small Things Sorted

Rotate a video

Shot sideways, needed upright - usually in seconds.

Stays on your device – The video is processed in your browser. It is not uploaded.

The first click loads about 10 MB of processing module. Rotating is tried first through a note in the file - that takes seconds and leaves the picture untouched. Only if that will not do is anything recalculated.

Drop your files here

or

You can also paste with Ctrl+V.

What you type is processed in your browser and never sent to us.

How to do it

  1. Pick your video

    Drop the file in or choose it.

  2. Choose the direction

    90 degrees clockwise or anticlockwise, or 180.

  3. Go

    Usually done in seconds.

  4. Download

    The result stays for 24 hours in the list under the tool.

What this is for

The phone was the wrong way round, and now the recording is upside down or on its side.

Most of the time nothing has to be computed for that. A video can carry a rotation note - a line saying how it should be displayed. That is exactly how a phone stores a video shot in portrait. The tool tries changing only that note first: then it is done in seconds and the picture stays bit for bit as it was.

That does not work with every format. If the note will not stick, the picture is actually turned - and then it takes roughly as long as the video runs. The tool tells you afterwards which of the two routes it took.

Common questions

No. The processing runs in your browser.

An entry in the file header saying "show me turned by so many degrees". The pixels stay as they are. Phones use it for videos shot in portrait - stored sideways, displayed upright.

Because the note does not survive reliably in every container. After trying, the tool checks whether the file really is displayed rotated now - and if not, it turns the picture itself. Claiming it was rotated without looking would be the worse answer.

Not through the note - no pixel is touched. If it has to be recalculated, yes, as with any recalculation.

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