How to Turn a Horizontal Video into a Vertical Video for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
A landscape video looks tiny on TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. PressCut’s auto reframe follows the speaker’s face and crops every clip to the new shape, on your phone.
Auto reframe in one step
- Open PressCut and tap Make it vertical in the quick tools, or open a project and tap Reframe.
- Choose the New shape: 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts or 1:1 for a square post.
- Tap Reframe video. PressCut tracks the speaker and crops each clip.
- Not happy? Tap Remove reframing to go back.
Or choose the canvas yourself
Tap Canvas and pick a Shape. Use Fit to show the whole picture with a Background (blur or colour) above and below.
| Platform | Shape |
|---|---|
| TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Stories | 9:16 |
| Instagram feed | 4:5 or 1:1 |
| YouTube | 16:9 |
| Cinematic | 21:9 |
Keep important text away from the bottom fifth of the screen: TikTok and Reels place their buttons there.
Add auto captions before you post: most people watch short videos without sound.
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