Rescroll

Turn a horizontal video into a vertical one.

Make a YouTube video, webinar or landscape phone clip fit TikTok, Reels and Shorts: 1080×1920, with the whole picture over a blurred fill, or cropped to fill the screen.

  • 100% free
  • No watermark
  • No sign-up
  • Full quality
  • Files stay on your device

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How it works

How to resize a video, free, in three steps.

  1. 1

    Drop in your video

    Any MP4, MOV or WebM: a YouTube export, a phone video, a screen recording. It opens in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

  2. 2

    Choose the shape and the fill

    9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, 1:1 or 4:5 for the feed, 16:9 for YouTube. Keep the whole picture with a blurred fill or plain bars around it, or crop it to fill the frame and slide the crop where you want it.

  3. 3

    Download the resized MP4

    At 1080p, or up to 4K when your video has the detail for it. No watermark, and the sound is copied across untouched.

Why this one

Free, with nothing held back, and nothing uploaded.

Every platform's shape

9:16 (1080×1920) for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and Stories; 1:1 and 4:5 for Instagram and Facebook posts; 16:9 (1920×1080) for YouTube.

Blurred fill, not black bars

The whole picture stays in view, with a soft blurred copy of itself filling the space around it: the look you see on most reposted clips. Plain bars and full-frame crops are one click away.

Crop where it matters

Cropping a wide video to vertical? Slide the crop left or right to keep the speaker or the action in frame, and see it in the preview before you export.

Full quality, no watermark

The picture is drawn once at the new size and encoded at high quality; the sound isn't touched. Nothing is added: no logo, no watermark.

Your file is opened and processed by your own browser. It is never sent to a server, so it stays private, and there’s no upload to wait for.

Making a landscape video vertical

Most cameras, screen recorders and YouTube exports are horizontal, and short-form apps play vertical. Posted as it is, a 16:9 video fills only a third of a phone screen, with empty space above and below it.

There are two good fixes. Keep the whole picture and fill the space with a blurred, darkened copy of it, so the screen is full and nothing is cut off; this suits screen recordings, slides and wide shots. Or crop a 9:16 slice out of the middle and slide it to follow the speaker, which looks like it was filmed vertically. This page starts with the blurred fill; the crop is one click away.

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Rescroll

Resizing is step one of repurposing.

Rescroll turns one long video into posts for every platform: it finds the best moments, reframes them vertically around the speaker, adds captions and gets each one ready to publish.

  • Finds the best clips in a long video
  • Reframes around whoever is talking
  • Captions and motion graphics on every clip
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Questions

The video resizer: your questions, answered.

How do I make a horizontal video vertical without cropping it?

Choose Blurred fill. The whole picture is kept, centered, and the space above and below is filled with a blurred copy of the same video, so it fills a phone screen without losing anything.

How do I convert a YouTube video to a vertical Short?

Export or download your own video, drop it on this page and choose 9:16 with a crop or blurred fill. Shorts can be up to three minutes long, so trim it first if it's longer.

What size is a vertical video for TikTok, Reels and Shorts?

1080 × 1920 pixels, an aspect ratio of 9:16. All three play vertical video full screen at that shape, and it's what this tool makes when you choose 9:16.

Should I crop or add a blurred background?

Crop when the important part sits in one area of the frame, like one person talking: it fills the screen and looks native. Use the blurred background when everything in the wide frame matters, like a screen recording or a group shot, so nothing is cut off.

Does resizing lower the quality?

Changing a video's shape means re-encoding it, and this tool does that at a high quality setting. Making a picture bigger than it was can't add detail, so a 720p video stretched to fill a 1080p frame will look as soft as the original.

Is this video resizer really free?

Yes. There's no price, no trial, no account and no limit on how many files you do. The video resizer runs on your own device, in your browser, so it costs us nothing to run and we don't charge for it.

Does it add a watermark?

No. The file you download has no watermark, no logo and no intro or outro added. It's your file, changed only in the way you asked.

Is my video uploaded anywhere?

No. The file is opened and processed by your browser, on your device, and never sent to a server: not to us, not to anyone. You can check: watch the Network tab of your browser's developer tools while it works, and you'll see the file is never sent anywhere.

How big a file can it handle?

There's no file size limit of ours. Files of several gigabytes work, because the file is read from your disk as it's needed rather than loaded all at once. What sets the pace is your device: a long 4K video takes longer on an older laptop than on a new one.

Which browsers does it work in?

Current versions of Chrome, Edge and Safari, and Firefox on a computer: any browser with the WebCodecs API for encoding video and sound. Some files, like iPhone HEVC video, need Chrome, Edge or Safari to decode. A computer is much faster than a phone for long videos.

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