Horizontal → Vertical 9:16 · Crop, Bars or Blur — Free, No Upload
Cameras, screen recorders and editing software still default to landscape, but social feeds are vertical. Converting a horizontal 16:9 clip into a portrait 9:16 video is the single most common edit creators make — and the one most likely to ruin a shot if it is done carelessly. This guide covers the three correct ways to do it and when to use each.
Rotate the frame the right way: turn landscape footage into portrait without re-uploading or installing anything.
Open the converter →A landscape video is wider than it is tall (16:9). A portrait video is taller than it is wide (9:16). The pixels do not rotate — the canvas does. To go from one to the other you have to decide how the wide source occupies the tall frame, because a 16:9 image simply does not fit inside a 9:16 box at the same scale. There is no lossless answer; there is only the right trade-off for your footage.
Cover mode scales the video up until it fills the vertical frame, then trims the sides. The result is fully immersive with no bars, which is what most viewers expect on TikTok. The cost is the cropped edges, so set the crop focus to where the subject lives: Center for most shots, Top for a presenter's face, Bottom for gameplay or on-screen captions. Cropping works best when the important content already sits near the middle of the frame.
When you cannot afford to lose the sides — a wide landscape, a group shot, a chart — the blurred background style keeps the entire frame centered and fills the top and bottom with an enlarged, blurred copy of the video. It reads as a deliberate edit rather than a lazy crop, keeps the whole screen alive with color, and is the default look of professionally repurposed clips.
Contain mode places the whole landscape frame in a band and fills the rest with a solid color of your choosing. It is the most literal conversion: nothing is cropped, nothing is distorted. Use it for tutorials, slide decks and screen recordings where legibility beats immersion.
Because the same tool also splits, you can convert a long landscape recording to portrait and cut it into clips in one pass — handy for turning a horizontal webinar into a series of vertical highlights. The output stays 1080 × 1920 by default and never leaves your browser.
Load the video, set the aspect ratio to 9:16, and pick a fit mode. Cover crops the sides to fill the frame; Blurred background keeps the whole frame and fills the gaps. Output is 1080 × 1920.
Only in Cover mode, where the left and right edges are cropped. Contain and Blurred background keep the entire landscape frame visible.
Yes. For screen recordings where text must stay readable, use Contain so the full frame is preserved inside the vertical video.
No. The whole conversion runs locally in your browser, so the video never leaves your device.