2Choose the axis — horizontal gives you a mirror image, vertical an upside-down reflection.
3Apply the flip, then check any text, logos or numbers in the preview, because those mirror along with everything else.
4Download the flipped MOV file.
Flip MOV FAQ
Does the source format matter when flipping?
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It does. MOV is QuickTime, Apple-native, and the usual home for ProRes and alpha-channel video that MP4 cannot carry. That is what decides whether the mirror can be done by rewriting the file or requires decoding it first.
Anything specific to MOV to be aware of?
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Yes — MOV can carry ProRes and a real alpha channel, so a re-encode to an H.264 profile silently discards both. Worth a moment before you flip something you cannot easily recreate.
How does Flip MOV mirror the file?
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Concretely, a horizontal or vertical flip is applied as a filter, which needs a re-encode because the coded frames themselves change; the audio stream is copied through untouched. You choose the axis — horizontal produces a mirror image, vertical produces an upside-down reflection — and the whole file is transformed on it.
What is the difference between flipping and rotating?
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A flip reverses the content across an axis and produces a mirror image; a rotation turns it without reversing anything. Text is the giveaway: it reads backwards after a flip and stays readable after a rotation.
What happens to audio, subtitle and chapter tracks?
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They are carried across. Multi-track audio, embedded subtitle tracks and chapter markers survive wherever the target container can represent them — that is the main thing that separates a proper job from a naive re-encode that silently keeps only track one.
What can I upload to Flip MOV?
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MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GP, M4V, MPEG and MPG. The container and codec are probed before anything runs, so a mixed batch is handled correctly per file rather than assumed to be uniform.
Is there a file size limit on Flip MOV?
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Yes: free accounts process video up to 1 GiB per file, by far the most generous cap on the site; ffmpeg with x264, x265 and libvpx does the work, which is the same toolchain behind most desktop video software. Video is the one family where the cap is high enough that upload time, not the limit, is what you will actually notice.
Will Flip MOV lower the quality of my MOV videos?
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It depends on whether the job needs a re-encode. Operations that only touch the container or the timeline are done as a stream copy and the picture is bit-identical to the source. Anything that has to redraw frames goes through x264/x265 at a quality level you set, where CRF 23 is visually transparent on most footage.
Why would a modern-format site run Flip MOV?
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WEBP.to is built around the modern replacement for both of the old defaults: one format that does lossy, lossless, alpha and animation, and reliably lands smaller than the JPEG or PNG it came from. People arrive here having decided the old defaults are costing them bandwidth, and that decision immediately raises the rest: what size, what quality, what happens to the transparency. Flip MOV is on the same upload and the same account so those questions get answered in one place.
Once Flip MOV has run, what is worth doing next?
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The converter on this site moves images to and from WebP, PNG, JPG and AVIF, which is where you decide whether a smaller file is worth losing the older browsers. Doing it in that order matters: pick the pixels first and the container afterwards, because the container is the cheap decision and the pixels are the expensive one.
Do the sibling sites run something different?
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The engines are identical — same libraries, same workers, same caps. What is different is the opinion attached, and the opinion here rests on a property of the format this site is named after: the same .webp extension can hold a lossy VP8 frame, a lossless one, or an animation, so the sensible processing path is decided per file rather than per extension.
What happens to my file, and is an account required?
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No account, and nothing is retained: uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job finishes, and nothing is inspected, listed or indexed. Accounts exist for history and batch size only.
