Rotate Video via API

Rotate videos by any angle to fix incorrect orientation from mobile recordings or convert between portrait and landscape layouts.

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Loading FFmpeg engine... (~31 MB)

Use the API

curl -X POST https://renderio.dev/v1/commands \
  -H "X-API-KEY: ffsk_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "ffmpeg_command": "-i {in_video} -vf \"transpose=1\" {out_video}",
  "input_files": {
    "in_video": "https://example.com/input.mp4"
  },
  "output_files": {
    "out_video": "output.mp4"
  }
}'

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Common Variations

Rotate 90 degrees counter-clockwise

-i input.mp4 -vf "transpose=2" output.mp4

Rotate 180 degrees

-i input.mp4 -vf "transpose=1,transpose=1" output.mp4

Rotate by arbitrary angle (45 degrees)

-i input.mp4 -vf "rotate=PI/4:fillcolor=black" output.mp4

Flip horizontally (mirror)

-i input.mp4 -vf "hflip" output.mp4

Related Operations

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