Reframe any video to 16:9 at 1920 x 1080, the shape YouTube actually wants. Free, in your browser.
Drag and drop a file, or click to browse. Up to 500 MB, nothing to install.
The crop is pre-set to 16:9 for YouTube. Switch ratio in the panel if you need a different placement.
We process the crop on our servers. Create a free account to download, or keep editing in REQO.
YouTube is built around 16:9. At 1920 x 1080 your video fills the player on a desktop, a phone held sideways and a TV app with no bars on any side.
Anything that is not 16:9 gets pillarboxed with black bars down the sides. If your source is a vertical phone recording that has to live on the main channel rather than in Shorts, crop or reframe it to 16:9 rather than uploading it tall.
Shorts are the exception: they are 9:16, capped at three minutes, and shown in a separate vertical feed. There is a dedicated Shorts crop page linked below.
| Placement | Aspect ratio | Frame size |
|---|---|---|
| Standard video | 16:9 | 1920 x 1080 |
| 4K upload | 16:9 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Shorts | 9:16 | 1080 x 1920 |
| 720p upload | 16:9 | 1280 x 720 |
Cropping changes what is inside the frame by cutting the edges away. Resizing keeps the whole frame and changes how many pixels it is drawn with. Going from a landscape recording to a vertical post is a crop, and something has to leave the picture.
If your video is already 16:9 and you only need it at a different resolution, use the resize tool instead, it is free too and linked below.
16:9. 1920 x 1080 is the standard upload; 3840 x 2160 if you have a 4K source worth keeping.
Because the frame is not 16:9. The player pads whatever does not fit. Cropping to 16:9 before upload removes them.
Yes. Crop and preview for free, then create a free account to download the result.
No. It runs in your browser on any machine, so you can crop for YouTube from a phone as easily as from a laptop.
The kept area is cropped at source resolution and re-encoded at high quality, so it stays sharp. Cropping deep into a low-resolution source is what makes video look soft, not the crop itself.
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