Video tool · Free

Crop a Video to 9:16 (vertical)

Reframe any video to 9:16 at 1080 x 1920, cut from the centre. Free, nothing to install.

Free to start
Nothing to install
Up to 1GB

How it works

Crop to 9:16 in 3 steps

Upload your video
Drag and drop the clip you want reframed to 9:16, or click to browse. Anything under 1GB.
The frame is already 9:16
The canvas is pre-set to 9:16 at 1080 x 1920, 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 9:16 is, and what it costs

Vertical is a full phone screen turned on its side: nine units across for every sixteen down. It is the shape every full-screen feed uses, and the one a 16:9 recording is furthest from, so the crop is the most aggressive of the four.

Cropping 1920 x 1080 to 9:16 keeps a 608-pixel-wide column out of the middle, 32% of the width, and draws it 1.78 times larger to fill 1080 x 1920. That is fine for a talking head and destructive for a screen recording, where the sides usually carry the toolbars and the point. For a screen share, letterbox instead, in the full editor: keep the whole 16:9 frame, centre it on a 1080 x 1920 canvas and use the space above and below for a caption.

The frame this page sets is 1080 x 1920. Everything full-screen wants that: Reels, TikTok, Shorts, Stories and a phone browser in portrait.

TikTok, Reels, Shorts

Frame1080 x 1920

What it suitsFaces, hands, anything filmed on a phone

Stories, status posts

Frame1080 x 1920

What it suitsShort, personal, watched with sound off

A phone browser in portrait

Frame1080 x 1920

What it suitsVideo embedded above the fold

Used by	Frame	What it suits
TikTok, Reels, Shorts	1080 x 1920	Faces, hands, anything filmed on a phone
Stories, status posts	1080 x 1920	Short, personal, watched with sound off
A phone browser in portrait	1080 x 1920	Video embedded above the fold

FAQ

Crop to 9:16: questions

How do I turn a landscape video vertical without losing the sides?

Do not crop it. In the full editor, put the whole 16:9 frame on a 1080 x 1920 canvas and let the bands above and below carry a title or captions. Cropping to 9:16 keeps 32% of the width.

What size is a 9:16 video?

1080 x 1920 is the standard, and what this page sets. 720 x 1280 is the same shape at lower 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.