Use our online video resizer to quickly adapt your clips for any platform or aspect ratio. Whether you need to resize video for Instagram or fit a horizontal clip into a 9:16 format for TikTok, this free video resizer from Descript makes it simple.
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Start a new Descript project, then adjust the Canvas size to match your chosen dimensions. Click the “Aspect ratio and video settings” icon. Pick square (1:1), widescreen (16:9), portrait (9:16), or customize your width and height.
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Drag and drop your media layers and adjust them to fit the new Canvas. You can add Fancy Captions, text, images, or a background to fill extra space—for example, if you’re resizing a 1:1 square video into a 9:16 portrait format.
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Make multiple compositions in one project if you want different aspect ratios of the same video. Highlight the transcript section, right-click, and duplicate to a new composition. When finished, go to Publish > Export to download all compositions.
Use ready-made vertical, square, and wide video templates to repurpose your content for Instagram Stories, Facebook videos, YouTube Shorts, TikTok clips, and everything in between.
Refine your video’s size, length, and design to fit various platform requirements. With Descript, you can cut long clips into 30-second social posts, create sharp thumbnails, and more.
No more awkward black bars or distorted footage. Even if you resize from 16:9 to 9:16, you can fill the empty space with waveforms, captions, images, titles, or progress bars.
Descript is an AI-powered audio and video editor that lets you edit podcasts and videos with a document-like interface.
Use Descript’s publishing features to quickly post your audio and video content to Vimeo, YouTube, and other platforms with a few clicks. Once you resize a video, sharing it is straightforward.
Generate 95% accurate captions for your video files with Descript’s AI-driven transcription to keep your viewers engaged.
Save time with customizable social media templates from Descript, making it easy to create eye-catching videos for platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and more.
Descript’s AI identifies and removes filler words (like “uh” or “um”) so you can produce polished, professional recordings with minimal effort.
With a 4.6-out-of-5-star rating and a bunch of distinctions on G2, Descript’s users have declared it an industry standard in the video and podcasting world.
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“With Descript I'll be able to at least double my content output since editing is taking one-quarter the time it used to.”
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“Descript has made cleaning up and creating my educational videos into professional presentations [possible] without needing extensive technical computer skills.”
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“Descript makes recording and editing audio and video a breeze. It's advanced features have streamlined my workflows, saving me a lot of time usually spent editing.”
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“The collaborative tools streamline teamwork, allowing my team and me to work efficiently together on projects. Overall, Descript enhances productivity and simplifies the editing process.”
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“Transcription-based editing makes the process much faster…All in all, a must have editor for most audiences, especially in SaaS marketing.”
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Yes. Descript lets you resize video for Instagram by selecting 9:16, 1:1, or 4:5. It’s quick and straightforward to repurpose your feed posts, Reels, or Stories.
Yes. Descript can resize video for YouTube Shorts. We also offer branded templates so you can quickly rework your full-length YouTube videos into bite-sized Shorts.
Descript can resize MP4, MPEG, MOV, and Apple HDR video formats.
To resize a video without cropping, keep the original aspect ratio and add black bars where needed. With an online video resizer like Descript, you can create backgrounds, add text, or include captions in those extra spaces.
With the free plan, Descript allows one watermark-free export each month. For unlimited watermark-free exports, plans start at $12 per month.