Crop video

How to use it

1. Add your file. Drop it on the box or choose it from your device.
2. Set it up. Pick a shape and which part to keep. The bright box on the preview shows what stays.
3. Crop video. Press Crop video. Long or large files take a while on phones.
4. Download. Save the result.

What happens to your file

The chosen area is cut out of every frame and the video is re-encoded as H.264 MP4 at high quality, with the sound unchanged.

Cropping for each platform

• Reels, Shorts and TikTok use 9:16 vertical video; Instagram feed posts look best at 4:5; YouTube and most TVs use 16:9.
• Cropping a landscape 1920×1080 clip to 9:16 leaves a 608×1080 frame, so keep the subject near the centre when filming.
• Cropping re-encodes the video. Use the quality setting you would for compression if the file also needs to be small.
• Remove black bars from letterboxed films by cropping to the picture area; the tool shows the exact pixel size of your selection.
• Very small crops of phone footage look soft when shown full screen; crop no more than you need.

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