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title: 'Landscape to portrait video converter (16:9 to 9:16) - OpenClip'
description: '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.'
canonical: 'https://openclip.app/tools/landscape-to-portrait-video'
markdown: 'https://openclip.app/tools/landscape-to-portrait-video.md'
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[Tools](https://openclip.app/tools) Landscape to portrait video converter (16:9 to 9:16)

# 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

## Questions & answers

### How do I convert 16:9 to 9:16 without black bars?

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.

### Won't I lose the sides of my video?

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.

### What if my speaker moves around the frame?

A fixed crop can't follow them. The [Shorts converter](/tools/convert-video-to-youtube-shorts) tracks faces frame-by-frame and re-centers the vertical frame as they move.

### Does my video get uploaded to convert it?

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

### Can I go the other way, portrait to landscape?

Yes. Pick the 16:9 preset in the [video cropper](/tools/crop-video-online), though a tall source keeps only a strip of the frame.

### Which platforms take the 9:16 output?

TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts all use the same vertical frame; the [TikTok](/tools/crop-video-for-tiktok), [Reels](/tools/crop-video-for-instagram-reels), and [Shorts](/tools/crop-video-for-youtube-shorts) crop pages cover each one.

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### 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.
- [Mute Video](https://openclip.app/tools/remove-audio-from-video): Remove audio track from videos.