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How to rotate video FREE
Any File or Size - Easily!

Rotate video files VERY fast with Freemake. Rotate online videos, MP4 clips from iPhone or Android phone or tablet. All possible formats (500+) are supported: HD, AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, FLV, MOV, etc. Turn movies & clips 90 or 180 degrees without quality loss. Save rotated videos for playback on a PC, gadget, home theatre, and multimedia system. Turn even large HD files: 500MB/1/4/10GB or larger. No limits, check how to rotate a video now!
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Get the job done in these easy steps:
1. Download free video rotation software
2. Add videos for rotating
3. Open an editor
4. Choose an output format
5. Rotate & save the video
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See how to rotate a video free:

1

Download Rotation Tool for Windows

Click here to download Freemake video rotator for PC. Double-click on the installation file to run it. Please pay attention that the freeware works on Windows computers only. You can use the flip tool to rotate video permanently on any desktop or laptop with Win Vista, Windows 7, Win 8, and Windows 10 OS version.

Accept the Terms of use and choose if you want to send anonymous reports to developers to help make the video rotation tool better. Don't worry – the app doesn't collect any personal information, only Freemake system logs.

Complete all the steps of the installation procedure and launch the freeware.
2

Add videos for rotation

Select the files to turn video left or right. When the rotation program starts, drag-n-drop them into the app. You can add clips of different sizes (even big files) and extensions: MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, and others. The video software accepts over 500 input formats including videos from Facebook and Instagram. Rotate MP4 fast! Just keep in mind that your visuals should not be protected.

If you can’t drag and drop the films, use the blue “+Video” button to add them. Alternatively, you can set Freemake as a default program for your media files. So next time when you click a clip, it will be automatically opened and added to Freemake rotator, so you can rotate video from iPhone or Android easily.
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3

Open an editor

Start Freemake editor to change the orientation of your file. Click the button with green play sign and scissors to the right of the movie. Look attentively at the bottom of the editor. Here you will see a green arrow button with a “Rotate” headline. Click this button one time to turn the clip by 90° degrees or two times to rotate video by 180° degrees. If you click the "Rotate" button 3 or 4 times you will flip your clip.

Then click the "OK" button to return to the main app interface.
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Choose an output format

Select an extension for rotated media on the formats bar. Please note that you should convert a movie to apply any changes like rotate video. You can save a clip for watching on PC, on old and modern TVs, game console, portable device or even upload it online right from the movie rotating freeware.

Click on the format that you need, for instance "to MP4". There will appear a window with final settings that you need to choose. First of all, select a quality for your future visual. If you transcode a file for a portable device, choose your gadget model form the drop-down menu.

Then select a folder for your clips to store your resulted MP4 files. Please keep in mind that Freemake tool doesn’t change or delete the original vids.
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5

Rotate a video

Save changes to rotate video without losing quality. Click the "Convert" button to turn video permanently. Depending on a number of media files and your PC capacity, it can take some minutes to get it done.

When the rotation is completed, go and check your new films.

Please use our DVD burner to record the output movies onto a DVD disc.
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Now it’s your turn to try!
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To say even more:

How to rotate iPhone videos?


Usually vertical clips from iPhone have a wrong orientation. To turn them 90 CW or CCW, use free software from Freemake. Transfer your videos to a Windows-based PC via iTunes or any cloud storage. Then add the clips into the freeware and follow the steps above to change their orientation.

How to rotate MP4 video?


Freemake rotator allows users to prepare the media for watching on a particular device, for example, rotate an MP4 file. To do it, click the output format and then a blue cog-wheel button under a preset drop-down. Set custom parameters such as codec, resolution, fps, and bitrate. Please note that the bigger is the bitrate, the larger your final film will be.

Besides, you can use Freemake editor to perform other simple changes. For example, you might eliminate ads from your MP4 clips. To do it, run the editor and use the arrows button to select the beginning and the end of an ad. After that, click "OK", rotate MP4 sideways and convert files in a usual way.

How to rotate video in Windows Media Player?


Windows Media Player can turn a clip 90 or 180 degrees for a comfortable playback. However, these changes are temporary, for the current session only, and they cannot be saved. So you'd better use Freemake freeware to turn & save your movies.

How to rotate video in Windows 10?


If you run Windows 10 OS, you may download Freemake rotation tool and do as described above to rotate a video in Windows 10. Please make sure to add files of supported formats only. The full list is available on the software main page.

How to rotate a video for YouTube?


If you need to share your movie online, you can do it right from the freeware. First of all, flip or rotate video, then click "to YouTube" option. Then type your login data and start the encoding procedure. When it finishes, open your channel to add title, description and other information about your clip.

How to rotate a video in VLC?


VLC Player is also capable of doing video rotation. To do this, add a file into the program, go to Tools > Effects and Filters, switch to "Video Effects" > "Geometry tab". Then tick the option "Transform" and choose the desired setting: Rotate by 90 degrees, Flip, Transpose, etc. The video will be turned for the current playback only. This change in VLC is not permanent. So we recommend you using Freemake freeware to rotate & save any video forever.

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