Crop a Video for TikTok and Reels

Change your video's shape to 9:16 for vertical video, or square and 4:5 for feed posts. Crop the picture or keep all of it with blurred bars, right in your browser.

Change the Shape

How to Crop a Video for TikTok and Reels

Open your video in the video editor.
In the Crop tool on the left, choose a shape: 9:16 for Stories, Reels and TikTok, 1:1 square or 4:5 for feed posts, 16:9 wide, or Original.
Choose Fill (crop) and drag the picture so the important part stays in view, or Fit (blurred bars) to keep the whole picture with blurred bars around it.
Add subtitles, a logo or an ending if you like; they follow the new shape.
Press Save MP4 at the top right.

Questions

Which shape do TikTok and Reels use?

Vertical 9:16, the shape of a phone screen held upright.

Crop or blurred bars: which is better?

Crop fills the screen but keeps only part of the picture: from a wide 16:9 video, a 9:16 crop keeps about a third of the width. Blurred bars keep everything in view, with the bars filling the empty space.

Can I crop to any size I want?

For video, you choose from the five shapes above. The photo editor has free cropping for pictures.