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Vertical video to horizontal (16:9)

Filmed upright on a phone and need it widescreen? Drop the vertical clip and get a 16:9 video: the whole picture in the middle over a soft, blurred copy of itself (no black bars), or a crop you slide up and down to keep what matters. It is made in your browser, with no watermark and no upload.

How to use it

  1. Drop the vertical clipA phone video in 9:16, MP4 or MOV.
  2. Keep 16:9 and the blurred backgroundOr choose Fixed crop and slide it up or down.
  3. Check the previewPlay it: the frame on the right is what you will get.
  4. ExportA 1920x1080 MP4 with the sound.

What you can download here

  • 16:9 MP4, 1920x1080the whole clip over its own blurred copy, or your crop
  • WebMin browsers that cannot make MP4

Example: a phone clip in a YouTube video

Start with
A 0:40 vertical clip filmed on a phone at a workshop.
Do this
16:9, whole frame over a blurred background, export.
You get
A 0:40 1920x1080 MP4 with the clip in the middle and soft blurred sides instead of black bars.

Text near the top or bottom of the vertical clip stays visible; a crop would cut it off.

Good to know

Mixing phone clips into a landscape edit? Turn each one 16:9 here first, then join them with merge videos: every clip already has the same shape.

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Auto-reframe to vertical16:9 → 9:16 with a crop that follows the face.Merge videos NewJoin clips in order, any size or shape, sound in sync.Add captions to videoStyled, burned-in captions, 9:16 crop and safe-area guides.Filler word removerUm, uh, false starts and repeats cut; keeps your last take.Silence removerCut dead air; get the tightened video, an EDL or a WAV.Crop video NewKeep only part of the frame: drag a box or pick a shape.

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Questions

How do I make a vertical video horizontal without black bars?

Pick "Whole frame, blurred background" (the default here): the clip stays whole in the middle and the sides are filled with a blurred, darkened copy of the same video, the way TV news shows phone footage.

Can I crop instead, to fill the screen?

Yes: choose Fixed crop and slide the position to keep the face or the subject in frame. A 16:9 crop of a 9:16 clip keeps about a third of its height, so use it for footage with room to spare.

Will it lose quality?

The video is re-encoded at 1920x1080 at a high bitrate. A phone clip is usually 1080 wide, so the picture in the middle keeps its own sharpness.

Can it go the other way, horizontal to vertical?

Yes: the reframe tool turns 16:9 into 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, and can follow the speaker's face.