Free tool

Crop Video to Vertical

Turn a landscape clip into 9:16 for Reels, TikTok or Shorts. Drag a window over what matters, keep the sound, download an MP4.

Looked after by Trim, a pair of crop corners.

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MP4, MOV or WebM. Drop a file anywhere on the editor.Nothing is uploaded.

What it does

  1. 1Crop or blurred fillDrag a 9:16 window over the footage, or keep the whole frame on a blurred background.
  2. 2Sound stays inThe audio goes back into the finished MP4, in sync.
  3. 3Nothing uploadedReading, cropping and encoding all happen in this tab.
Turning 16:9 into 9:16 without losing the subject

A 16:9 to 9:16 converter that runs in your browser. Convert a horizontal video to vertical for a Reels crop, a TikTok crop or a Short: drag a window over the part that matters, or sit the whole landscape frame on a blurred background.

Going from landscape to portrait throws away most of the width. The window you keep has to hold the person, and keep them clear of the parts of the screen the app covers.

Do this

  • Export at 1080 by 1920, the size every vertical feed expects
  • Keep faces and hands fully inside the window, with a little air above the head
  • Play the clip through before you download, so nobody walks out of frame
  • Use the blurred fill for screen recordings, slides and wide shots where cropping would cut off what people need to read

Avoid this

  • Putting the subject in the bottom of the frame, where the caption and the sound name sit
  • Anything important along the right edge, under the like, comment and share buttons
  • Cropping a two-person shot down the middle so half a face shows on each side
  • Zooming in so far that a 1080p source turns soft

Questions

Why 9:16?
Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts all play full screen on a phone held upright, and a phone screen is roughly 9 wide by 16 tall. A landscape video posted as is shows up as a thin strip with black bars above and below. Cropping to 9:16 fills the screen.
Does it keep the sound?
Yes. The audio is taken from your file, re-encoded, and put back in the finished MP4 in sync with the picture. If the browser cannot read the audio in your file, the export tells you before it starts and gives you a silent video instead.
Does the crop follow the person as they move?
No. The window you set stays in the same place for the whole clip, which is what you want for a talking head, a screen recording, or a clip where the action stays in one part of the frame. If you are working with a podcast recording where the camera needs to switch between people, Slice Reframe does that automatically. See Reframe.
Is my video uploaded anywhere?
No. The whole thing, reading the file, cropping it and encoding the new video, happens inside your browser on your own computer. Nothing is sent to a server, and nothing is kept after you close the tab.
Which files and browsers work?
MP4 and MOV files work best, including ones straight from a phone or a screen recorder. WebM works if your browser can play it. The preview works in any modern browser. Exporting the finished video needs Chrome or Edge, because they are the browsers with a built-in video encoder that a web page can use.
How long does the export take?
Usually much faster than the clip is long. A one-minute clip is typically done in ten to twenty seconds on a recent laptop. If the browser cannot decode your file directly, the tool falls back to playing it through in real time while it captures the frames, so a one-minute clip then takes about a minute.
More vertical video toolsInstagram Reels Safe Zone →TikTok Safe Zone →YouTube Shorts Safe Zone →Reels Cover Creator →Export Settings →

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Need the crop to follow the speaker?

This tool keeps one window still. When the frame should move with whoever is talking, and captions need burning in, that is what Shorts does.

Try Shorts

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