Landscape clips were built for YouTube, webinars, product demos, and desktop players. TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and Stories need a 9:16 frame. Today, the market has three conversion methods: Fallback fit or blur, AI crop, and AI outpaint. OmniFit provides both AI Crop and AI Outpaint, so you can either cut to the focal point or expand the canvas without cutting the original content.
Most current tools solve 16:9 to 9:16 with fit-to-canvas padding, blur background, or AI auto-reframe. Those methods are useful, but they either make the real video smaller or crop away part of the original frame. OmniFit supports both AI Crop and AI Outpaint, so you can choose a fast focal-point crop or preserve the landscape content and generate the missing vertical space.
The full landscape video stays visible, but it sits inside a vertical canvas with blurred background, colors, graphics, or captions filling the empty space.
Please see below for details on available tools.
The editor identifies faces, speakers, action, or the main object, then crops the wide video into a tall frame.
Please see below for details on available tools.
OmniFit keeps the existing landscape frame unchanged, then uses AI outpainting to generate the top and bottom areas needed for a vertical 9:16 result.
Please see below for details on available tools.
Many editors let you fit the whole landscape clip into a 9:16 canvas. The empty top and bottom can become black bars, brand color, titles, subtitles, or a blurred duplicate of the video.
AI smart crop tools analyze faces, speakers, motion, or the main object, then move the vertical crop window so the important subject stays centered while the final video fills 9:16.
OmniFit's outpainting path is the premium format transformation. Instead of cutting the wide video or surrounding it with filler, OmniFit keeps the original landscape frame intact and generates the missing vertical canvas above and below it.
Crop-based tools decide what to remove. Blur-based tools preserve the wide video but shrink it into a narrow band. OmniFit's AI outpaint method keeps the existing landscape content unchanged, then generates the top and bottom area needed for a full vertical result.
The original landscape frame stays visible, so faces, hands, products, captions, scenery, and UI details do not disappear at the left or right edge.
The output is not just a small landscape clip surrounded by a blurred duplicate. OmniFit generates new scene-matched vertical space.
OmniFit is built around converting one format into another, so landscape-to-vertical expansion is treated as the main workflow, not a timeline workaround.
Landscape-to-vertical conversion is not one problem. Sometimes the right answer is a smart crop. Sometimes cropping ruins the shot. OmniFit supports both paths so you can choose based on the video, not the tool's limitation.
OmniFit uses AI to intelligently identify the main focal point, then reframes the video into 9:16. This is the common approach used by many resize tools, and it is useful when losing side context is acceptable.
OmniFit keeps the original landscape content intact and uses AI outpainting to create the top and bottom areas. The existing video is not cut, stretched, or changed.
Use Crop for quick vertical clips. Use Expand for demos, products, travel shots, group footage, screen recordings, or any video where the full wide composition matters.
Upload the wide clip, choose the transformation, then export a vertical version for social feeds.
Start with a 16:9 or wide video from YouTube, a webinar, a camera export, a product demo, or a website asset.
Choose Crop when the subject can be reframed. Choose Expand when you want to preserve the full original scene and generate the missing top and bottom canvas.
Export a vertical result ready for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Stories, paid social, or mobile landing pages.
Landscape still works on desktop, but vertical is often the native format for discovery and mobile viewing.
The fastest method is usually crop or auto reframe. The tool identifies a focal point and exports a 9:16 version quickly, but it may remove parts of the original wide scene.
Use Expand when the full landscape frame matters: product shots, two-person clips, screen recordings, demos, travel scenery, captions, or anything important near the left and right edges.
No. Expand mode keeps the original landscape content intact and outpaints the top and bottom area so the video can fit a vertical canvas without cutting or changing the existing frame.
Use Crop when a focused vertical cut is enough. Use Expand when you want to keep the whole wide video and create the missing top and bottom space with AI.