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Crop video for YouTube Shorts (9:16) online free

Crop any video to the YouTube Shorts vertical 9:16 frame with a live preview, so the Shorts shelf shows your subject, not black bars. 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

Step 1

Upload your video

MP4, MOV, WEBM, or MKV. Files never leave your device.

Questions & answers

Shorts are vertical 9:16 at 1080x1920. Pick the 9:16 preset and position the crop; a square or landscape upload still counts as a Short, but it plays with bars instead of filling the screen.

The live preview shows exactly what the 9:16 frame keeps as you drag it. For long videos where the speaker moves, the Shorts converter tracks faces frame-by-frame instead.

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

No watermark and no paywall. With a free account the export is a clean vertical file ready for the Shorts upload flow.

One 9:16 crop covers all three platforms. The TikTok crop and Reels crop pages cover their specifics, and the video cropper handles any custom ratio.

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