Crop videos to any aspect ratio. Platform presets for Instagram (1:1, 9:16), YouTube (16:9), TikTok. Interactive crop area with rule of thirds grid. Real-time preview while cropping.
Crop your video to remove unwanted areas around the edges or reframe the composition entirely. The Video Cropper provides a draggable crop region over a video preview, with preset aspect ratios for common platforms (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5) and the option to define a custom region. What you see in the preview is exactly what you get in the output.
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Convert videos between MP4, WebM, OGG, MOV, AVI, and MKV formats. Device presets for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, iPhone, Android. Quality options from fast to high quality encoding.
Trim and cut videos precisely with frame-by-frame scrubbing. Set start/end points visually, preview clips in real-time, and export trimmed videos instantly. No upload required - runs 100% in browser.
Merge multiple video clips into one seamless video. Drag-and-drop reordering, preview before export, timeline visualization. Combine videos in any format with automatic re-encoding.
A landscape clip must become a 9:16 vertical for Reels without black bars.
Input
clip.mp4 16:9 · crop to 9:16, subject centred
Output
A 1080×1920 vertical clip filling the frame
Cropping to the target aspect ratio removes the unwanted sides entirely instead of letterboxing, so the subject fills a phone screen. Keeping the crop centred on the action avoids decapitating the subject.
Crop your video to remove unwanted areas around the edges or reframe the composition entirely. The Video Cropper provides a draggable crop region over a video preview, with preset aspect ratios for common platforms (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5) and the option to define a custom region. What you see in the preview is exactly what you get in the output.
Crop landscape (16:9) footage to portrait (9:16) for TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts.
Eliminate letterbox or pillarbox bars from videos that were recorded or exported with the wrong aspect ratio.
Crop into a specific area of the frame to highlight a person, product, or detail that's too small in the original wide shot.
Remove taskbars, browser chrome, or other UI elements from screen captures.
Cropping itself doesn't degrade quality, but the cropped area is a subset of the original pixels. A heavily cropped 1080p video may end up at a lower effective resolution.
Cropping defines the visible area. The output resolution matches the cropped region. If you need a specific output resolution, combine cropping with the resolution settings.
Video is decoded and re-encoded on your own device. Large files never leave your machine.