Free Tool
Vertical Video Converter
A center crop puts a podcast guest's ear in frame. This one follows whoever is talking.
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Features
The Crop Follows the Speaker
When the conversation moves from one person to another, the vertical frame moves with it. Nobody ends up half out of shot for thirty seconds because the crop was pinned to the middle.
Keeps What Matters On Screen
Faces are the priority, but on-screen text, scoreboards, and fast action are held in frame too, so a clip still makes sense after the sides are gone.
Movement You Do Not Notice
The reframe eases between subjects rather than snapping. You should not be able to tell where the crop decision happened — that is the point.
Split Layouts for Gaming
For gameplay with a facecam, AutoClip stacks the cam above the action instead of choosing one and losing the other. Scale adds multi-region layouts for busier source footage.
How It Works
Paste a horizontal video URL
Podcasts, interviews, gameplay, sports commentary — any public 16:9 source works, up to 2 hours on Starter, 5 on Pro, and 10 on Scale.
AutoClip plans the crop path
It works out where the frame needs to sit across the whole clip, not just at the start, so the framing holds up when people move or trade turns.
Get the vertical clip back
Download it, or send it straight to TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and the rest of your connected accounts.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a vertical video converter actually do?
It turns 16:9 footage into the 9:16 shape TikTok, Reels, and Shorts expect. The cheap way is a fixed center crop, which works for a single centered talking head and fails for everything else. AutoClip moves the crop over time so the person speaking stays in frame.
Will reframing cut off something important?
Sometimes, and it is worth being honest about when. Two-person shots where both speak at once, or footage with graphics pinned to the far left and right, force a choice — one side loses. Single-speaker and podcast footage converts cleanly; dense multi-panel screens are the hard case, and Scale's multi-region layouts exist for exactly that.
What's the difference between cropping and reframing?
A crop is one decision applied to the whole clip. Reframing is a decision that keeps updating — closer to a camera operator panning than to a rectangle you drag once in an editor.
Does it add captions?
Yes, word-synced and burned into the file, in karaoke, pop, or bounce styles. Most short-form viewing starts muted, so a vertical clip without captions is throwing away its first three seconds.
What resolution do the clips come out at?
1080×1920 on Free, Starter, and Pro. Scale exports 4K. Paid plans are watermark-free from Starter ($19.99/mo) up — only the free trial clips carry a watermark.
Can I restyle or translate the captions?
Yes. Caption styles, fonts, and colors are editable, and a brand kit on Pro saves them so every clip comes out matching. Pro also translates and dubs captions into 31 languages if you are posting the same clip to more than one region.
Can I convert a whole channel to vertical automatically?
Yes. Point channel monitoring at a public YouTube, Twitch, or Kick channel and each new upload gets converted, captioned, and posted without you opening the dashboard. Starter monitors 1 channel, Pro 3, Scale 10.
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