Fill the 9:16 frame · Center / Top / Bottom focus — Free, No Upload
Cropping is the cleanest way to make a video fill a vertical screen: no bars, no blur, just the part of the frame that matters, scaled edge to edge. The only decision is which part to keep. This page explains how cropping to vertical works, how to choose the right focus point, and how to keep the result sharp.
Crop any video to a full-screen 9:16 frame and keep your subject perfectly placed.
Open the video cropper →When you crop a wide video into a 9:16 frame, the tool scales the footage so its height fills the frame, then keeps only the central vertical strip that fits. Everything outside that strip is discarded. Because the strip is taken at full height, the kept area stays at native resolution — cropping does not stretch or squash anything, it simply removes the sides. This is what gives cropped clips their crisp, immersive feel compared with letterboxed or blurred alternatives.
The whole art of cropping is deciding what to keep. The crop focus moves the vertical strip across the frame:
Center keeps the middle and crops both sides equally — the safe default for most footage where the subject is roughly centered.
Top anchors the strip to the upper part of the frame. Use it for talking-head videos and interviews so the face and eyes stay high in the shot rather than drifting to the bottom.
Bottom keeps the lower part — ideal for gameplay with a HUD at the bottom, recipe videos shot over a counter, or anything with captions burned into the lower third.
Left and Right keep one side, useful when your subject stands off-center in the original wide shot.
Cropping throws away pixels, so the kept area is enlarged to fill 1080 × 1920. To avoid softness, encode at a higher bitrate — High (6 Mbps) or Very high (10 Mbps) — and keep the output at Full HD. If your source is only 720p wide, expect some softening when it is blown up to vertical Full HD; choosing 720 × 1280 output instead keeps the file honest to the source resolution.
You can crop and split in the same operation. Set the ratio to 9:16, choose your focus, then pick a split mode to cut a long source into cropped vertical clips. The preview shows exactly what will be kept before you commit, and nothing is uploaded — the crop runs entirely in your browser.
Use Cover mode with a 9:16 ratio. The footage fills the frame and the overflow is cropped, leaving no bars. Pick a crop focus to keep the subject visible.
Yes. The crop focus decides which region is kept: Top keeps the upper area, Bottom keeps the lower area, Center crops both sides evenly.
The kept area is re-encoded at your chosen bitrate. Pick a higher bitrate, and keep the output resolution close to the source, to stay sharp.
No. It runs in your browser with the Canvas API, so your video is never uploaded.