About Crop Video
Reframe your video by cropping away unwanted edges. Useful for converting landscape clips to portrait for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok.
How crop video works
Cropping changes which pixels make it into the final frame. The most common reason isn’t removing junk at the edges. It’s changing aspect ratio. A 16:9 landscape clip from a camera doesn’t fit Instagram’s 9:16 vertical layout, and stretching it would look ridiculous. Cropping picks the right rectangle out of the wider frame instead.
NextConvert offers preset aspect ratios for every major platform (9:16 vertical, 1:1 square, 4:5 portrait, 16:9 widescreen, 21:9 cinema) plus custom dimensions. The interactive picker lets you drag the crop window over a preview so you can see what stays and what goes before committing.
Cropping is lossless within the kept area. We don’t resample or re-scale, we just write a new file containing only the pixels inside your box. The picture is exactly as sharp as the original.
When to use it
Landscape to vertical
Cut a 16:9 clip down to 9:16 for Reels, Shorts, or TikTok without distortion.
Square for Instagram feed
Crop to 1:1 to maximise feed real estate compared with a letterboxed landscape.
Remove black bars
Cut letterbox bars off a video you downloaded so it fills the player.
Hide sensitive areas
Trim out a portion of the frame that includes a face, a screen, or a license plate.
Supported formats
Input
Output
Step-by-step guide
- 1
Upload the video
Drop your clip in. The first frame appears in the editor.
- 2
Pick or drag the crop window
Choose a preset aspect ratio or drag the corners of the crop box. Position the box over the part of the frame you want to keep.
- 3
Apply and download
We produce the cropped clip and stream it back. Quality inside the box is identical to the source.
Tips for the best result
- When converting landscape to portrait, position the crop box on the subject, usually a face, not the geometric centre.
- Keep an eye on text or graphics near the edges. Cropping a captioned video can chop the captions off entirely.
- Combine crop and resize if you also need a specific output resolution after the crop.
Privacy and security
Files are uploaded to our processing servers over an encrypted connection and removed automatically after the job completes (usually within a few hours). We never share your media or train models on it. You can also delete a job manually at any time from your dashboard.
Read our full privacy policy for retention timelines and our list of subprocessors.