Landscape to portrait video converter (16:9 to 9:16) - OpenClip
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Landscape to portrait video converter (16:9 to 9:16)

Convert a horizontal 16:9 video into a vertical 9:16 portrait clip by cropping to the part of the frame that matters, with a live 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

Step 1

Upload your video

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

Questions & answers

Crop, don't resize. Pick the 9:16 preset and drag the frame over your subject; the export fills a vertical screen edge to edge. Resizing a wide video into a tall frame is what produces the bars.

Yes, that's inherent to going vertical: a 9:16 crop keeps roughly the middle third of a 16:9 frame. The live preview shows exactly what survives, so you position the crop where the action is.

A fixed crop can't follow them. The Shorts converter tracks faces frame-by-frame and re-centers the vertical frame as they move.

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

Yes. Pick the 16:9 preset in the video cropper, though a tall source keeps only a strip of the frame.

TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts all use the same vertical frame; the TikTok, Reels, and Shorts crop pages cover each one.

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