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title: 'Crop video for Instagram Reels (9:16) online free - OpenClip'
description: 'Crop any video to the Reels 9:16 full-screen frame with a live preview, and keep your subject centered for the 4:5 feed preview. Runs in your browser, your video never leaves your device.'
canonical: 'https://openclip.app/tools/crop-video-for-instagram-reels'
markdown: 'https://openclip.app/tools/crop-video-for-instagram-reels.md'
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[Tools](https://openclip.app/tools) Crop video for Instagram Reels (9:16) online free

# Crop video for Instagram Reels (9:16) online free

Crop any video to the Reels 9:16 full-screen frame with a live preview, and keep your subject centered for the 4:5 feed preview. Runs in your browser, your video never leaves your device.

1

Upload

Pick a video

2

Configure

Set crop & format

3

Download

Save your file

## Questions & answers

### Should I crop to 9:16 or 4:5 for Instagram?

Reels play full-screen at 9:16 (1080x1920). The feed preview, however, shows only the middle 4:5 of that frame, so keep your subject centered, or use the 4:5 preset if the clip is destined for a feed post instead.

### Will my crop lose quality?

No. The pixels inside the crop box keep their original quality; only the edges outside it are discarded.

### Does my video get uploaded while cropping?

No. Cropping runs in your browser, your video never leaves your device, and we keep nothing.

### Is the export watermarked or behind a paywall?

No watermark and no paywall. With a free account you download the clean cropped file and upload it straight to Instagram.

### What about TikTok and Shorts versions of the same clip?

They share the 9:16 frame, so one crop works for all three. See the [TikTok crop](/tools/crop-video-for-tiktok) and [Shorts crop](/tools/crop-video-for-youtube-shorts) pages, or the full [video cropper](/tools/crop-video-online) for custom ratios.

## Stop editing one clip at a time.

OpenClip finds your best moments, reframes them face-aware for every platform, writes the captions, and posts them. One upload, a week of content.

[Start free](https://openclip.app/register)

### More free tools

Keep editing inside the same browser-only toolkit.

- [Video Cropper](https://openclip.app/tools/crop-video-online): Crop videos to any aspect ratio.
- [Crop for TikTok](https://openclip.app/tools/crop-video-for-tiktok): Crop any video to the TikTok 9:16 frame.
- [Shorts Converter](https://openclip.app/tools/convert-video-to-youtube-shorts): Convert videos to vertical shorts.