Vertical 9:16 video fills a phone screen held upright. A landscape recording can be turned into one by cropping a tall slice of the picture: the middle, or the part you choose. The result is an upright video with the sound.
How to crop a video to 9:16
- Upload the landscape video (up to 2 GB).
- Shape: Vertical (9:16) is already chosen. Without anything else, the tallest 9:16 slice in the middle is kept: from a 1920 × 1080 video, 606 × 1080.
- To follow the subject, draw an area on the video: the 9:16 slice is taken from the middle of the area you draw.
- Start, and download the vertical video.
Quality and size
The slice keeps the video's own pixels; nothing is enlarged, so a 1080p landscape video gives a vertical video about 600 pixels wide. That is fine on most phone screens. A 4K recording gives 1214 × 2160, sharp even on large screens.
The picture is re-encoded with H.264 (VP9 for WebM files) at the quality you choose; every sound track is kept, unchanged where the format allows.
Tips
- Frame the subject: a fixed crop can't follow someone who moves across the picture. If the action moves, cut the video into parts and crop each one around the subject.
- Upright recordings: videos already filmed upright are 9:16 or close; cropping them to 9:16 only trims a little.
- Other shapes are available too: 4:5 portrait and 3:4 give a little more width than 9:16.
- Up to about 25 minutes of 1080p video can be cropped in one job; trim longer recordings first.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Video Cropper.