Crop a Video to 16:9 (widescreen)
Reframe any video to 16:9 at 1920 x 1080, cut from the centre. Free, nothing to install.
- Free to start
- Nothing to install
- Up to 1GB
Crop to 16:9 in 3 steps
Upload your video
Drag and drop the clip you want reframed to 16:9, or click to browse. Anything under 1GB.
The frame is already 16:9
The canvas is pre-set to 16:9 at 1920 x 1080, and the crop is taken from the centre. The preview shows what stays in the frame.
Crop and download
Create a free account to download the reframed file.
What 16:9 is, and what it costs
Widescreen is what almost everything is already: cameras, screen recorders, phones held sideways, every desktop display. Cropping TO 16:9 is therefore usually about getting back to it, from footage shot vertically or from a square export somebody else made.
Going from vertical to widescreen is the harshest crop of the four, because it takes a wide strip out of a tall frame and discards the rest. If the subject moves up and down at all, letterboxing in the full editor is the better answer: keep the whole frame and put it on a 1920 x 1080 canvas with the sides filled.
It is also the only shape a television, a projector or a conference call will show without bars of its own, which is why anything meant for a screen rather than a feed ends here.
YouTube, Vimeo, embeds
Televisions and projectors
Screen recordings and demos
| Used by | Frame | What it suits |
|---|---|---|
| YouTube, Vimeo, embeds | 1920 x 1080 | Anything watched on a screen rather than a feed |
| Televisions and projectors | 1920 x 1080 | Playback with no bars added |
| Screen recordings and demos | 1920 x 1080 | Interfaces, which are wide by nature |
Crop to 16:9: questions
How do I make a vertical video landscape?
You can crop a wide strip out of its middle here, which loses the top and bottom, or letterbox it in the full editor onto a 1920 x 1080 canvas so the whole frame survives with filled sides. For anything where the subject moves, letterbox.
What size is a 16:9 video?
1920 x 1080 for HD, 3840 x 2160 for 4K. Both are the same shape; this page sets the frame, not the resolution.
What if my subject is not in the middle?
This tool crops from the centre, so it keeps the middle of the picture. If the subject sits to one side, open the clip in the full REQO editor, move the picture inside the new frame and export from there. That is free too.
Is cropping free?
Yes. Crop and preview for free, then create a free account to download.
Other presets
Everything else you can do here.
All crop video presets
Resize to a resolution
Compress for a destination
Compress a format
Rotate or flip
Change the frame rate
Change the speed
Transcribe a language
Merge with a transition
Extract audio from a format
Subtitles in another language
Convert a caption file
Need more than crop to 16:9?
REQO is a full browser video editor: record, edit by transcript, caption and export.