> Canonical: https://www.cliphi.com/tools/make-video-vertical

# Make a Video Vertical

Paste or upload a horizontal video and Cliphi turns it into a vertical clip for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.

## How it works

1. **Paste a link or upload your video** Drop in a supported video link or upload a file. Cliphi reads the frame and the audio.
2. **AI reframes to vertical** Cliphi finds the subject and keeps them centered, tracking the speaker and the action as they move.
3. **Post or keep editing** Get a vertical clip ready to post, or adjust the framing, add captions, and a music bed before you do.

## Why Cliphi

- **Looks shot for vertical** A good vertical version doesn't read like a wide video with the sides chopped off. Cliphi follows the action so the framing feels intentional, not squeezed.
- **Turns wide footage into posts** Webinars, talks, gameplay, none of it was filmed vertical. That gap is the bottleneck. Paste the video, get it back vertical with the subject tracked, and post.
- **The subject stays centered** Cliphi tracks the speaker and the action and keeps them in the vertical frame, so you never lose the important part to a fixed crop.

## Horizontal video, vertical feeds

Almost everything is filmed wide, and almost everything gets watched vertical now. TikTok, Reels, and Shorts are all 9:16, so a horizontal video has to be turned vertical before it fits. Doing that by hand, cropping and re-centering shot by shot, is slow and fiddly. Cliphi makes the video vertical for you, keeping the subject in frame the whole way through.

## Vertical that looks intentional

A good vertical version does not look like a wide video with the sides chopped off. Cliphi tracks the subject so the framing follows the action, and for multiple people it cuts between them or uses a grid, so the result looks shot for vertical rather than squeezed into it.

You can output \[9:16 for the short-form feeds\]\(/tools/crop-video-to-vertical\), or 1:1 and 16:9 if you need them. And because Cliphi is a clip tool, making your video vertical is part of getting a finished clip, with \[captions and music applied\]\(/tools/add-captions-to-video\), not a separate export step.

Most things worth posting vertical were not filmed that way, a webinar, an interview, a talk, a gameplay capture, so turning them vertical well is the bottleneck between having the footage and having something to post. Cliphi takes that bottleneck out. Paste the video, get it back vertical with the subject tracked, and move on to posting. For a long video it can pull several vertical clips at once rather than making you do them one at a time.

## FAQ

### Does it just stretch the video to fit?

No. Cliphi reframes the video by tracking the subject and keeping it in the vertical frame, so nothing is stretched or squished and the speaker stays in shot.

### Will a vertical version look chopped off?

No. Cliphi tracks the subject and moves the framing with the action, so the clip looks shot for vertical rather than a wide video with its sides cut away.

### What aspect ratios can it output?

9:16 for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, plus 1:1 for the feed and 16:9 for YouTube.

## Related

- [Auto Reframe Video](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/auto-reframe-video.md)
- [Crop Video to Vertical](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/crop-video-to-vertical.md)
- [YouTube → Reels](https://www.cliphi.com/tools/youtube-to-instagram-reels.md)

## About Cliphi

Make your video vertical. Paste a link or upload a file and get a vertical clip.

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