Flip video
Mirror video left to right, or flip it upside down, without uploading it. The flip is drawn into the picture itself, so it looks the same in every player.
Runs on your device. Your files never leave your browser.
How to use the video flipper
- 01Choose your video file, or drop it onto the box.
- 02Choose Horizontally to mirror it, or Vertically to turn it upside down.
- 03Click Flip video, then download the result.
Mirroring a selfie video
A horizontal flip swaps left and right, the way a mirror does. It is the usual fix for footage from a front-facing camera, where text in the background reads backwards or a gesture points the wrong way.
A vertical flip turns the picture upside down, top to bottom. Here it is made as a half turn plus a mirror, which gives the same picture.
Why the flip is drawn into the picture
An MP4 file can describe a mirror image with metadata rather than changing the frames, but a player that does not read that metadata would play it unflipped. Rather than rely on every player reading it, this tool draws the flip into every frame and re-encodes, so the result looks the same wherever it is played.
That makes flipping slower than rotating, which can often be written as metadata and copied, and it costs a small amount of quality. The output is H.264 video with AAC sound in an MP4 file, or VP9 and Opus in WebM when your browser cannot make MP4.
Flip or rotate?
Flipping and rotating are easy to confuse. A flip makes a mirror image: text reads backwards after a horizontal flip. A rotation turns the whole picture around its centre and never mirrors it: text stays readable, just tilted.
If a video was recorded sideways or upside down and only needs turning, the rotate tool is the one to use, and for files whose codecs MP4 can hold it can do the job without re-encoding.
When you need more than a tool
Publishing one video in several shapes?
Anjin Media renders 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 versions from one edit.
Questions about the video flipper
- What is the difference between flipping horizontally and vertically?
- A horizontal flip swaps left and right, like a mirror. A vertical flip swaps top and bottom, so the picture is upside down.
- Does flipping a video lose quality?
- It re-encodes the video, which costs a small amount of quality. The flip is drawn into the frames rather than stored as metadata, so it does not depend on the player reading mirror metadata.
- Is the sound kept?
- Yes. The sound is kept, re-encoded to AAC alongside the flipped picture (or to Opus in a WebM file).
- Is my video uploaded?
- No. The flip runs in your browser; your video, and the flipped copy, never leave your device.
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