Crop any video to 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9 with a drag-and-drop crop box and platform presets. Built for turning landscape footage into something that fills a phone screen.
Drop your video here
MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV — up to 100MB
Free, no account needed, no watermark. Free tier: 1 file per session · max 100mb · max 2 minutes.
1 file per session · max 100MB · max 2 minutes
Example Output
Cropped from a 1920×960 landscape source to 540×960 — the same 9:16 maths the aspect ratio calculator gives you, with the box moved onto the speaker instead of left centred.
How It Works
Drop in an MP4, MOV or WebM. Nothing is published anywhere — the file is only processed to produce your crop.
Pick a platform preset to lock the ratio, then drag and resize the box over the part of the frame you want to keep.
Download the cropped video as an MP4 at the exact dimensions the platform expects. No watermark is added.
Cropping removes pixels from the edges of the frame. It is not the same as resizing, which squashes the whole picture into a new shape, and it is not the same as padding, which adds bars to fill the space. Cropping keeps a rectangle and discards everything outside it, so the part you keep stays at its original sharpness.
That matters most when going from landscape to vertical. A 16:9 recording is more than twice as wide as a 9:16 frame, so cropping to vertical means choosing which slice of the width survives. Centre it blindly and a speaker sitting slightly off-centre ends up half out of frame for the whole clip.
This cropper is for the single-clip case: one video, one crop, one download. It handles the manual reframe well. What it cannot do is follow a subject who moves — for that the crop box has to change position over time, which is a different job entirely.
Why Use This Tool
9:16, 1:1, 4:5 and 16:9 lock the crop box to the right ratio so you cannot accidentally export an odd shape.
The exported file carries nothing that was not in your original footage.
No sign-up, no email, no install. Open the page and crop.
Cropping is a processing step, not a publishing step. Nothing you crop is listed, shared or made public.
Exports land on the real platform sizes — 1080×1920, 1080×1080, 1080×1350 — not an approximation.
Built around the landscape-to-vertical case rather than treating 9:16 as an afterthought.
Yes, within the free limits shown above the tool. There is no account, no watermark on the output, and no trial countdown.
The pixels you keep stay exactly as sharp as they were, because cropping discards rather than rescales. The file is re-encoded once to produce the output, which is visually lossless at the settings used here.
9:16. It fills a phone screen edge to edge. If your subject is off to one side of a landscape shot, move the crop box over them rather than leaving it centred.
Yes. No watermark, badge or branding is added to your export.
MP4, MOV and WebM cover almost everything a phone, camera or screen recorder produces.
One at a time here. Batch reframing across a whole recording — a different crop position for every clip, tracking the speaker as they move — is what the ShortsHero app does.
A manual crop box works when the subject stays put and you only need one clip. Pull fifteen clips out of a two-hour podcast and you are re-doing the same decision fifteen times, on footage where people lean, gesture and swap turns. ShortsHero tracks the active speaker and moves the crop with them.
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Keep Going
Free video aspect ratio calculator. Enter your source size for exact 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 and 16:9 dimensions, plus how much of the frame each crop throws away.
Turn landscape footage into 9:16 without cropping. Fills the top and bottom with a blurred, zoomed copy of your own frame — free, no watermark, no sign-up.
Trim video online free. Set in and out points on a timeline and export just the section you want — no watermark, no sign-up, no software to install.
Rotate video 90, 180 or 270 degrees online. A true pixel re-encode, not a metadata flag — so the fix holds everywhere, on every player and platform.