1Upload the AVI videos that came out the wrong way round.
2Pick a turn of 90, 180 or 270 degrees.
3Apply the rotation; the pixels and the orientation flag are reconciled so every viewer agrees on which way is up.
4Download the rotated AVI file.
Rotate AVI FAQ
Does the format decide whether rotation is lossless?
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It does. AVI is the 1992 Microsoft container: broad codec support but no modern streaming features, no B-frame-friendly indexing and poor subtitle handling. That property is exactly what determines whether a quarter turn is free or costs a re-encode.
Anything specific to AVI I should know?
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Yes — AVI has no modern index or B-frame-friendly structure, so accurate seeking usually requires a real re-encode rather than a copy. It is the kind of thing that explains why a file looks right in one application and wrong in another.
Can I rotate a whole batch in one go?
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Several files in one job need a paid plan. Free use is one file per conversion, one conversion an hour. On a paid plan you can add several files to one job, then download each result on its own or all of them in one ZIP.
Can I run Rotate AVI on several AVI videos at once?
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Yes. Uploads queue in parallel, which matters more here than anywhere else because video jobs are minutes rather than seconds. Free accounts run one file at a time; a pass lifts that.
Does Rotate AVI cost anything?
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No. Rotate AVI is free without an account, and the output has no watermark, corner logo or intro card. The upload and the result are deleted automatically about 24 hours after the job, which leaves time to download the result.
Is there a file size limit on Rotate AVI?
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Yes: free accounts process video up to 40 MB 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.
Why does a PNG site host Rotate AVI?
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PNG.to is built around the format you use when you cannot afford to lose a pixel: lossless, alpha-capable, and the correct answer for screenshots, logos, line art and anything with hard edges. Image work is rarely one step: people arrive to change a format and leave needing the picture a different size, a different weight or a different shape. Running Rotate AVI on the same upload pipeline, the same size caps and the same account is the whole reason it is here rather than on a fourth tab.
What should I do with the result once Rotate AVI is finished?
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The converter on this site moves images to and from PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF and SVG — which is the step where the decision about transparency actually gets made. That is the step most people actually came for, and doing it after Rotate AVI rather than before it means the conversion works from the file you finally settled on.
Is Rotate AVI here the same tool the sibling sites run?
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The engines are shared — the same libraries, the same workers, the same limits. What differs is the advice, and the advice here starts from one fact about the format this site is named after: there is no quality slider to get wrong — a PNG round-trips bit-exactly, so the only thing edits cost you is file size. A PNG site is opinionated about where PNG is the right destination and where it is not, and that judgement is worth more than the button.
Do I need an account, and does anything get kept?
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No account is needed. Uploads and results are kept for about 24 hours, which leaves time to download the result, and are then deleted automatically; nobody reads, lists or indexes them. Several files in one job need a paid plan.
