How to Convert Landscape Video to Portrait for Instagram/TikTok

Nowadays, most social media platforms, including Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and TikTok, are filled with content that is in portrait or vertical video format. If you're a landscape video creator who wants to post your YouTube to other platforms, like Instagram, you'd better convert horizontal video into a vertical one.

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Best Landscape to Portrait Video Converter: Make Landscape Videos Portrait Online

There are several ways to convert a landscape video into a portrait one using the right video editing tools with a portrait aspect ratio. Check out the best online landscape to portrait video converter below and learn how to make a horizontal video vertical in different ways.

FlexClip is a great tool for beginners and pros alike to turn a landscape video into a portrait one in clicks. It's free and powerful, allowing you to optimize your video for TikTok (9:16), Instagram (1:1/4:5), and YouTube (16:9), etc. Besides, it also allows you to make more edits to level up your video, such as adding text & music, applying filter and transition effects, changing video speed, etc.

Also, FlexClip offers beautiful pre-made video templates inspiring you to edit and make a stunning video for your TikTok, Reels, and more with great ease.

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Summer Fashion Intro

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Simple Tiktok Outro

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Rhythm Travel Vlog Social Reels

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Now, follow the simple steps to make a landscape video into a portrait one without black bars or distortion:

Method 1 Change the Aspect Ratio and Crop Landscape Video into a Portrait One

Changing the video aspect ratio must be the best method to crop a landscape video to portrait. FlexClip offers various predefined aspect ratio choices such as 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, and even the 21:9 for widescreen effect. You can quickly pick a predefined aspect ratio to crop the landscape video into a portrait one.

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Step 1

Go to the Media option to upload the video that you want to convert to portrait from a local folder on you computer, or you can import file from your mobile and even some third-party platforms, and then apply to the Timeline.

Convert Landscape to Portrait with FlexClip - Upload

Step 2

Focus on the ratio icon on the top left of the screen, then choose the 9:16 to make your landscape video portrait. (Once your video is cropped into a portrait one, remember to zoom or drag the video to fit the whole screen.)

Convert Landscape to Portrait with FlexClip - Convert

Step 3

(optional) May you also want to make more edits to your video, like add text, set background music, add filters, etc.

Convert Landscape to Portrait with FlexClip - Edits

Method 2 Collage Your Landscape Video into a Portrait One without Quality Loss

Although changing the aspect ratio makes it pretty easy and quick to turn a landscape video into portrait, it cut out parts of your video scene. So here we'd like to share another creative way to help you make a landscape video into portrait without quality loss. That is collaging your video with a simple background or even some pictures to make it a vertical viewing, just like the examples below.

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Mini Vlog Reel

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Friends Illustration Collage Story

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Weekend Vlog Instagram Reels

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Now let's see how to use this way to make a landscape video into vertical viewing:

Step 1

Pick the right ratio of 9:16 for the collage, and start setting the background. You can simply pick one image or clip from FlexClip's media library or use a simple color background directly. Remember adjust its duration to match the length of your video.

Convert Landscape to Portrait with FlexClip - Background

Step 2

Upload your landscape video to FlexClip media section, and click the Add As Layer icon to add it to the Timeline as an video overlay, then adjust its size, location, motion, and more.

Convert Landscape to Portrait with FlexClip - Layer

Step 3

Once th main footage get ready, you can choose to add more pictures or add some text message to make the collage for creative and professional.

Convert Landscape to Portrait with FlexClip - More

By the way, more than an effective landscape to portrait video converter, FlexClip can help you do more, such as combining your Zoom recordings, editing your dji footage, etc.

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