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Rotate a GIF with Motionbox
With Motionbox it's super easy to rotate a GIF with our GIF editor.
You might want to rotate a GIF so that you can repurpose it as another GIF. This means you can add text to your GIF and pretty much manipulate it however you want to create a new version.
How to Rotate a GIF
Here are three simple steps on how you can easily rotate GIFs using Motionbox
1Upload GIF or use GIphy
Motionbox has a nice Giphy integration which makes it easy to search for a GIF of your liking. You can also upload your own.
2Rotate GIF
Simply activate the GIF you would like to rotate and select the handle at the top of the activated object. The handle indicates that the GIF can be rotate it, click and drag at an angle. You can also manually enter the rotation value in the toolbar to the right side of the active element.
3Create/Export GIF
When you're happy with the rotation angle you can proceed to edit the video until you're happy, then simply export your project as a GIF or a video.
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YouTube video on rotating GIFs
With this YouTube video Michael explains how easy it is use the Motionbox app
Why rotate a GIF?
Here are three reasons why having the ability to rotate a GIF is useful
1Repurpose
You can repurpose a meme or a raw GIF into a new thing. This gives you creative potential.
2Advertise
With Motionbox you can also make a GIF based ad, and inside the ad you might need to rotate your GIF to get your message across. Our goal is to make creativity easy and limitless.
3Creative
You can rotate abstract GIF stickers using our Giphy integration. I've personally made many cool templates inside Motionbox using the rotate GIF feature to add a design aesthetic to many of these videos we offer in our template library.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is it possible to convert a GIF into an MP4It's super easy, upon exporting you can choose between MP4 and GIF, it's entirely up to you which format you want to render it as.
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