Crop landscape video to portrait
Turn a horizontal clip into a vertical 9:16 one. Slide the frame over the part that matters and cut the rest away, or keep the whole picture with blurred bars.
Drag the picture to choose what stays in the frame.
Want to trim, crop or grade it as well? Open it in the full editor, it takes the clip with it.
How it works
- Choose the video.
- Drag the picture left or right until the subject sits inside the vertical frame. Or pick Keep it all to shrink the whole picture into the frame with blurred bars above and below.
- Press Make it portrait and save the result.
A 16:9 clip cut to 9:16 keeps a strip about a third as wide as the original, at the full height of the source. A 1080p landscape clip gives a 608 by 1080 portrait file; a 4K one gives 1216 by 2160. The picture is re-encoded, so this takes about as long as the clip is, on a phone a little longer.
Cut, or keep it all
Cutting is right when one subject fills the middle of the shot: a person talking, a product, a pet. Keeping it all is right when the whole width matters: a landscape, a group, text on screen. The blurred bars are a soft copy of the video itself, which reads far better than black on Reels and Stories.
Questions
Does it lose quality?
Cutting keeps the pixels inside the frame at their original size, so there is no scaling, but every export re-encodes once. Start from the original file rather than a copy that has been through WhatsApp.
Can I choose a different part for different moments?
Not on this page. The frame stays where you put it for the whole clip. For a moving subject, trim the clip into sections in the full editor and crop each one, or keep it all with blurred bars.
Which apps need 9:16?
Instagram Reels and Stories, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Snapchat and Facebook Stories. Feed posts on Instagram are 4:5 or 1:1, which the full editor can crop to.
Does it work on iPhone?
Yes. Open this page in Safari, pick the video from Photos, and use "Save video" when it is done to put the result back into Photos.
Is my video uploaded?
Not unless you choose "On our server". By default everything runs inside your browser and the file never leaves your device. The server option uploads the clip, processes it and deletes it right after the download.
Is there a size limit?
In the browser the clip has to fit in memory, which on a phone means roughly up to a few hundred megabytes. Larger files run fine with "On our server".
The long version, with the built in options on iPhone and Mac: How to crop a video, and when to resize with a blurred fill instead.