Flip a video
Mirror a clip left-to-right, which is what a selfie camera needs undone.
Drop a clip to start
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A front camera shows you a mirror image while you record, and some of them save it that way. The result is a video where every word of text is backwards and anyone who knows you looks subtly wrong. Mirroring it back is the fix, and it is a different operation from rotating — which is why it needs its own page.
It is also the trick for a clip that has to be cut against another one: mirroring a shot so a person faces the other way is a standard piece of editing, and doing it does not require an editor.
Unlike rotation, mirroring is not something a video container can record as a flag, so the frames themselves are redrawn. Each one is decoded, drawn mirrored onto a canvas and encoded again, which makes this slower than a turn and the reason the two are separate tools rather than one.
Step by step
- 1Drop in the clips.
- 2Choose to mirror across or top to bottom.
- 3Press Convert, then download.
Questions
Why is my selfie video mirrored?
Some front cameras save what you saw on screen rather than what the lens saw. Flipping horizontally undoes it, and text in the shot becomes readable again.
Is flipping the same as rotating 180 degrees?
No. A 180-degree turn puts the picture upside down; a horizontal flip mirrors it while leaving up as up.
Why is it slower than rotating?
A rotation is a flag the format understands. A mirror is not, so every frame has to be redrawn.