Portrait video to landscape
Turn a vertical phone clip into a horizontal 16:9 one. Slide the frame up or down and cut the rest away, or keep the whole picture with blurred sides.
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 up or down until the subject sits inside the wide frame. Or pick Keep it all to place the whole picture in the middle with blurred sides.
- Press Make it landscape and save the result.
Cutting a 9:16 clip to 16:9 keeps a band about a third as tall as the original, at the full width of the source, so a 1080 by 1920 phone clip gives a 1080 by 608 file. That is a lot of picture to lose, which is why most vertical videos on YouTube use the second option: the whole clip in the middle of a 16:9 frame with the sides filled by a blurred copy of itself.
Questions
Which option should I use?
Cut when a close subject fills the middle of the shot and the top and bottom are floor and ceiling. Keep it all when anything at the top or bottom matters, or when the clip will be shown big on a TV, where a cut-down band looks soft.
Does it lose quality?
Cutting keeps the pixels inside the frame at their original size. Keeping it all scales nothing up either: the picture stays its own size and the bars are added around it. Every export re-encodes once.
Can I just rotate it instead?
Only if the video was shot sideways by mistake. A clip that was really shot upright would come out lying on its side. For a sideways clip, use the rotate tool, which is lossless.
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.