--- title: "Mirrored Video? Why and How to Fix It | rotate.video" description: "Selfie cameras, Zoom and webcams mirror your picture. See what other people really see, and un-mirror a recorded video in your browser for free." url: https://rotate.video/mirrored-video --- Free · runs in your browser # Why is my video mirrored, and how do I fix it? Front cameras and video-call apps show you a reflection. Here’s what everyone else sees, and how to put a backwards recording the right way round. Mirror is already switched on in the tool. **Short answer:** your camera app or video-call app shows you a mirror image of yourself because that’s the face you know from the bathroom mirror. The other people on a Zoom, Google Meet or Teams call see you the right way round, and so do those apps’ own recordings. A video only needs fixing when the mirrored picture was saved into the file, which you can spot when writing in the background reads backwards. To fix a recording like that, open it in the tool above. **Mirror** is already on for this page, so the preview shows the clip un-mirrored. Check a frame with text in it, then select **Export video**. To make a reflected copy of a normal clip instead, the [mirror video tool](https://rotate.video/mirror-video) starts with nothing applied. [ ![Left, a recorded street clip whose shop signs read backwards; right, the same frame after the fix, with "Kalkandere Vakfı" and the other signs reading normally](https://rotate.video/guides/mirror-video/mirror-before-after.webp) (enlarge image) ](https://rotate.video/guides/mirror-video/mirror-before-after.webp) A backwards recording (left) and the copy exported with **Mirror** on (right). ## How to un-mirror a recorded video 1. ### Open the backwards clip Drop the recording onto the tool, or tap to pick it from your camera roll or files. Webcam recordings, screen captures and front-camera clips all open the same way. 2. ### Check the preview Mirror is already switched on here, so the preview is reflected left to right. Pause on a sign, a T-shirt slogan or a book spine: the letters should now read normally. [ ![The rotator with Mirror highlighted under Quick fixes and the status reading "Mirrored"; the "ERCAN BERBER" sign in the preview now reads left to right](https://rotate.video/guides/mirror-video/flip-horizontal-on.webp) (enlarge image) ](https://rotate.video/guides/mirror-video/flip-horizontal-on.webp) With **Mirror** on, the sign in the preview reads the right way round. 1. Mirror (H) 2. Status: Mirrored 3. ### Switch it off if it was right before If the text now reads backwards, the original wasn’t mirrored after all. Press **Mirror** again, or H, to turn it off. 4. ### Export the fixed copy Select **Export video**, then **Download video**. On a phone, **Share** lets you save it to Photos or your gallery. [ ![The finished-export panel, "Your video is ready", listing a 1920×1080 MP4 eight seconds long, with Download video and Share buttons](https://rotate.video/guides/mirror-video/export-download.webp) (enlarge image) ](https://rotate.video/guides/mirror-video/export-download.webp) The fixed copy keeps its size and length. Select **Download video**, or **Share** on a phone. 1. Download video 2. Share ## Why front cameras and webcams show a mirror image When you look at yourself, you expect the version you see in a mirror: your parting on the familiar side, your best side where it always is. A true, unreversed picture of your own face looks slightly odd to most people, so phone makers and video-call apps reflect the live preview to match. It also makes framing easier, because moving your hand to the left moves it to the left on screen. That preview is a courtesy to you, not a record of what the lens saw. What happens when you press record, or when the picture is sent to someone else, is a separate decision that each app makes. ## What other people see in Zoom, Google Meet and Teams ### Zoom Zoom’s **Mirror my video** setting, under **Settings → Video**, changes only your own self-view. Everyone else in the meeting sees you unreversed however it’s set, and Zoom’s local and cloud recordings show you as the others saw you. ### Google Meet Meet reflects your own tile so it behaves like a mirror. The people in the call, and a Meet recording, get the true picture, so a poster on the wall behind you reads correctly for them even though it looks backwards to you. ### Microsoft Teams Teams has a **Mirror my video** switch in its device settings, next to the camera preview. Like Zoom’s, it affects only what you see; the people you’re talking to always get the unreversed image. So if you hold a page up to the camera and it looks backwards to you, don’t turn it round. It already reads correctly for everyone else. ## Should you turn Mirror my video on or off? Leave it on if the self-view feels natural and you mostly glance at it to check your hair or framing. Turn it off when you’re showing something with writing on it, such as a whiteboard, a product label or a page of notes, so your view matches the audience’s and you can point at things without your hand going the wrong way. Either way, it changes nothing for anyone else. ## Why a recording comes out backwards, and when it doesn’t * **Phone front cameras.** iPhone’s **Mirror Front Camera** switch (Settings → Camera) decides whether front-camera shots are saved the way the preview showed them. Many Android camera apps have a similar option, often worded as saving selfies as previewed. New shots follow the setting; videos you’ve already recorded stay as they are. * **Webcam apps that record your preview.** Some recording and streaming programs save the reflected preview rather than the camera’s own picture, so the reflection ends up in the file. * **Screen recordings of a call.** Capture your screen during a meeting and you capture your mirrored self-view tile along with everything else. * **Footage shot into a real mirror** is reversed by nature, whatever the camera settings. Recordings made by Zoom, Meet and Teams themselves aren’t mirrored, so a backwards clip almost always came from one of the routes above. ## Fixing mirrored text and logos A horizontal flip reverses the whole frame, so it puts writing, logos and number plates right in one go. Everything else moves to the opposite side as well, which is the point: the scene goes back to how it really looked. You can’t un-mirror just the text and leave the rest; if only one sign needs to read correctly in a deliberately mirrored shot, that’s a job for an editor with masks. Mirroring redraws every frame, so the clip is re-encoded at a high bitrate rather than copied. Set Quality to High under Export settings for the closest match to the original; [rotating without losing quality](https://rotate.video/rotate-video-without-losing-quality) explains which changes stay lossless. If the clip is sideways as well, fix both in one export with **Turn left** or **Turn right**. For top-to-bottom flips, see [flip a video vertically](https://rotate.video/flip-video). ## Mirrored video questions ### Does Zoom mirror my video for others? No. Zoom mirrors only your self-view. The other people in the meeting, and Zoom’s recordings, always see the unreversed picture, whether Mirror my video is ticked or not. ### If I mirror my video on Zoom, what do others see? Exactly the same as before. Mirror my video changes your own preview only, so ticking or unticking it makes no difference to anyone else. ### Why does my iPhone front camera flip my video? The camera shows a mirrored preview so it feels like a mirror. Whether the saved clip keeps that reflection depends on Mirror Front Camera in Settings → Camera. Our [iPhone guide](https://rotate.video/rotate-video-iphone) shows how to flip a clip in Photos. ### How do I un-mirror a video after recording? Apply a horizontal flip. On this page Mirror is already on, so open the clip, check that the text reads correctly, and select Export video. Flipping a mirrored clip again restores the original. ### Does Google Meet mirror my video? Only in your own tile. The people in the call, and Meet recordings, see you the right way round. ### Does mirroring a video lose quality? The frames are redrawn and re-encoded at a high bitrate, so the difference is very hard to see. Choose High under Export settings for the closest match. ### Is my recording uploaded when I fix it here? No. Your browser reads, flips and saves the clip on your own device, so it never reaches a server. ## More rotation and flip guides * [ Rotate a video online Turn any video 90°, 180° or 270° in your browser. Quarter turns are lossless. ](https://rotate.video/) * [ Mirror a video or un-mirror a selfie Create a mirror image, or fix front-camera and webcam footage. ](https://rotate.video/mirror-video) * [ Flip a video horizontally or vertically Swap left and right, or top and bottom, with a live preview. ](https://rotate.video/flip-video) * [ How to rotate a video on iPhone Rotate, flip and mirror with the Photos app or in Safari. ](https://rotate.video/rotate-video-iphone) * [ Rotate a video without losing quality Which turns are lossless, which settings break that, and how to check. ](https://rotate.video/rotate-video-without-losing-quality) * [ How to rotate a video on Android Google Photos, your gallery app, or Chrome on any phone. ](https://rotate.video/rotate-video-android) * [ Rotate or flip a video in CapCut Rotate and Mirror on mobile and desktop, plus the canvas ratio. ](https://rotate.video/rotate-video-capcut)