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500 credits every month
- Up to 250 AI images
- Up to 50 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
- Up to 1.5 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 1,000 credits
Rotate video.
Turn any clip the right way up.
Fix a clip that plays sideways or upside down, or level a crooked horizon.
Free: use an app on your phone or Mac, Clipchamp, or FFmpeg. Studio is the paid route, for any angle or a level horizon.
- iPhone
- In Photos, open the video, tap Edit, then Crop. Tap the Rotate button until it's upright, a quarter turn per tap, then tap Done. The Flip button mirrors it.
- Android
- In Google Photos, open the video and tap Crop, then Rotate until it's upright. Tap Save to keep a copy. Mirror flips it.
Rotate a video in Studio
Studio comes with plans from $19 a month, and each project's first export uses no credits. It runs in a desktop browser.
90°
Studio's Rotation field
Press Rotate 90° clockwise once.
How did yours come out? Pick one to see the turn.
- Mac
- In QuickTime Player, open the video and choose View > Show Clips. Select the clip, rotate it left or right from the Edit menu, and click Done. File > Export As saves a copy.
- Windows or a browser
- In Clipchamp, Microsoft's editor, free with a Microsoft account (the Windows app or app.clipchamp.com): click the clip on the timeline, click the three dots above the preview, then rotate by 90 degrees until it's upright. The free plan exports up to 1080p.
- FFmpeg
Turn a clip 90° clockwise. The other turns, a mirror and a fix with no re-encode are in the FFmpeg commands.
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "transpose=clock" -c:a copy output.mp4
Steps from each maker's help page: Apple Photos, Google Photos, Apple QuickTime, Microsoft Clipchamp, FFmpeg.
On a computer, free?Five FFmpeg commands, tested.
FFmpeg is free and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Replace input.mp4 with your file's name. The first four turn the picture and copy the sound as it is. The last only rewrites the rotation flag: instant, with no quality loss, but only players that read the flag show the turn.
- Turn 90° clockwise
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "transpose=clock" -c:a copy output.mp4 - Turn 90° counterclockwise
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "transpose=cclock" -c:a copy output.mp4 - Turn 180°
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "hflip,vflip" -c:a copy output.mp4 - Mirror left to right
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "hflip" -c:a copy output.mp4 - Turn 90° clockwise by the flag only, no re-encode
ffmpeg -display_rotation -90 -i input.mp4 -c copy output.mp4
How to rotate a video.Four steps in Studio.
This is the skateboard clip from the top of the page, filmed sideways on a phone, fixed on a 1080 × 1920 canvas.
1
Add the video
Start a project and drop the clip on the editor, or use the Upload tile. A sideways clip lands sideways, fitted to the canvas.
Upload
2
Turn it
Select the clip and open Settings. Under Rotation, press Rotate 90° clockwise once for a quarter turn, or type any angle, like −90 or 3.
SettingsRotationRotate 90° clockwise
3
Fill the frame
A quarter turn swaps the clip's sides. Set its width to the canvas height, 1920, and the height follows. Then center it both ways.
DimensionsAlign center horizontallyAlign center vertically
4
Export
Export MP4 or WebM at 720p, 1080p or 4K. The turn is saved into the picture, so every player shows it the right way up.
MP4WebMNo watermark
Is the horizon crooked?Turn it level, then zoom to fill.
Rotation takes any angle, not just quarter turns. A small turn leaves empty corners, and zooming in fills them by cropping the edges. Drag to see what each degree costs.
Turn backThe horizon is level.
−4°
- Type in Rotation
- −4°
- Zoom to fill
- 112%
- Clip size on 1920 × 1080
- 2153 × 1211
- Frame kept
- 79%
How much zoom a turn needs
The longer the frame, the more a turn costs. A square clip loses the least. Straighten in Studio by typing the angle, then setting the clip's width to the canvas width times the zoom.
| Turn | 16:9 or 9:16 | 4:5 | 1:1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1° | 103% | 102% | 102% |
| 2° | 106% | 104% | 103% |
| 3° | 109% | 106% | 105% |
| 5° | 115% | 111% | 108% |
| 10° | 129% | 120% | 116% |
Upright on your phone, sideways everywhere else?Your video has a rotation flag.
Phones often save video the way the camera sensor sees it and add a note that says which way is up. When the phone lies flat as you start recording, it can also guess the wrong way, and then the clip is sideways everywhere.
What the phone saved
Flag: turn 90° clockwiseThe picture as the sensor saw it, plus a flag that says which way is up.
A player that reads the flag
Phones, most browsers and most apps turn it upright as it plays.
A player that ignores it
Some older players, editors and upload tools show the saved picture as it is.
Export from Studio and the turn goes into the picture itself, so there is no flag left for a player to miss.
Making a wide video vertical?Don't rotate it. Reshape it.
A quarter turn makes a wide clip tall, but everyone in it lies on their side. To post it on TikTok or Reels, keep it upright and change the frame: crop it to 9:16, or fit it over a blurred copy of itself.
Rotated 90°
The right shape, with the cook on his side.
Cropped to 9:16
The right shape, the right way up.
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For creators posting daily across channels
1,300 credits every month
- Up to 650 AI images
- Up to 130 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
- Up to 4 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 2,600 credits
Studio
$99/month
Billed monthly
For brands and production teams
2,700 credits every month
- Up to 1,350 AI images
- Up to 270 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
- Up to 9 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 5,400 credits
Scale
$199/month
Billed monthly
For agencies running always-on content
5,500 credits every month
- Up to 2,750 AI images
- Up to 550 Studio exports, plus the first export of each project
- Up to 18 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 11,000 credits
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Rotating a video
For free, use the app you have: Photos on iPhone, Google Photos on Android, QuickTime Player on a Mac, Clipchamp on Windows or in a browser, or FFmpeg. In Studio, add the video, select it, and open Settings. Under Rotation, press Rotate 90° clockwise once for a quarter turn or twice for upside down, or type an angle. Set the clip's width to the canvas height so it fills the frame, center it, and export as MP4 or WebM.
Open the video in Photos, tap Edit, then tap Crop. Tap the Rotate button until the picture is upright, a quarter turn per tap, then tap Done. On Android, open the video in Google Photos, tap Crop, then Rotate, and tap Save to keep a copy.
Use Clipchamp, Microsoft's editor, in its Windows app or at app.clipchamp.com. Click the clip on the timeline, click the three dots on the toolbar above the preview, then click rotate by 90 degrees until it's upright, and export. The free plan exports up to 1080p.
Phones often save the picture the way the camera sensor sees it and add a flag that says which way is up. Players that read the flag show it upright; some older players, editors and upload tools ignore it. If the phone was lying flat when you pressed record, it can also guess the wrong way. Re-exporting with the turn applied fixes it in every player.
Yes. Studio's Rotation field takes any angle, so you can type 3 or −4 to straighten a crooked horizon. A small turn leaves empty corners. Zoom in to fill them: a 16:9 clip turned 4° needs about 112%.
It can, a little. Studio and FFmpeg's turn commands encode the picture again, and every new encode can lose some detail. Exporting at a bigger size than the clip doesn't bring detail back, so pick the size closest to the original. Straightening by a few degrees also zooms in and crops the edges, which costs some sharpness. To change only the rotation flag with no re-encode, use FFmpeg's -display_rotation with -c copy.
Not in Studio; it rotates but doesn't mirror. iPhone Photos has a Flip button in Crop, Google Photos has Mirror in Crop, QuickTime Player on a Mac flips a clip horizontally or vertically from the Edit menu, and FFmpeg mirrors with -vf hflip.
Rotating a wide clip 90° makes it tall, but everyone in it lies on their side. To post a wide clip vertically, keep it upright and change the frame instead: crop it to 9:16, or fit the whole clip over a blurred copy. Studio does both.
Studio comes with plans from $19 a month, and each project's first export uses no credits. Each export after that uses 10 credits, and the $19 plan comes with 500. Every paid plan includes commercial use and exports with no watermark. The free routes at the top of this page cost nothing: Photos on iPhone, Google Photos on Android, QuickTime Player on a Mac, Clipchamp's free plan, and FFmpeg.
Sideways, upside down, a little crooked.Every clip, the right way up.
Rotate a video in Studio
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