More and more users are joining the vertical video trend, either on TikTok or on its namesake on Instagram, the Reels; both can be uploaded horizontally, of course they can, but that’s not how they’re intended. In this way, the normal thing is that you want to respect the ‘norm’ and try to upload all the videos vertically, although perhaps you have some horizontally , so we are going to explain how to put them all vertically so that you can upload your favorite videos .
To do this, we will have a huge number of possibilities through which we can carry out this process, the easiest of which will be through the different native editors that we have in the galleries of our different smartphones. But it is true that there are many apps that with the emergence of apps like TikTok and Reels that make use of these vertical videos and that facilitate this process.
on Android
As you will be able to see from now on, most of the processes that we are going to follow to get us to see our video vertically will be similar. To do this, we will have to open the Google Photos app and search for our video , then click on edit:
- Click on edit in the button panel below and immediately afterwards, do the same on crop.
- On the button of the rectangle with the two arrows that we find on the left we must press to see all the formats.
- We will click on ‘Change to vertical’ and if it asks for it, we will select the 9:16 format.
- We save the changes and we will have our vertical video ready to be used.
This, as we have already mentioned, will be through Google Photos, an app that comes pre-installed on many Android phones, but can be installed on all mobile phones. Although it is true that if we want to do it through the mobile gallery, as is the case with Xiaomi, Samsung or OPPO , we can also do it in a similar way to the one done.
on iPhone
In the same way that we have done in Android, we will be able to see how very, very easy it is to carry out this process on our iPhone through the native editor of our phone’s gallery without having to install anything at all. To do this we will have to go to the iPhone photos app and there, look for the video that we want to put vertically, although we can also call this format 9:16.
Once we are with our video before us, we will click on digital and the magic will begin:
- Within the edition, we will have to go to the formats icon that we find at the top right and a menu will open with the orientation, as well as the different formats.
- We will move these formats to the left in order to find the one we are looking for, which, as we have previously mentioned , is 9:16 .
- Selecting on these formats, the icon that indicates that the video must be vertical , the video will automatically be in this format and we will have to adjust it to the height that we like the most.
When we click to save our video it will automatically appear vertically ready to be used on TikTok or to be uploaded as Reels to Instagram.
Use a third-party app
If, on the contrary, of the two previous options, we are not at all friends with editing the videos of our native gallery and what we want is much more than directly editing the video vertically and we are looking for something more editing, there is nothing better than apps like CapCut, which help make the process easier.
First of all, of course we will have to import the video from our gallery to the editing screen of CapCut; a very interactive process that the app itself will indicate directly to us. Once the video is loaded in the app and its corresponding timeline appears, we will have to follow the following steps:
- We will slide between the options and among all, we will select, cut until the menu with the different formats opens.
- Here we do see the same numbers, where we will have to select the 9:16 format.
- The video will be placed vertically, which we will have to adjust the position to where we want it as we have done in the two previous cases.
- This is where the change comes in, because when we save the changes, we will have to press the export button at the top right and immediately afterwards, we can save it in our gallery or share it.
In addition, it is totally free and it will allow us to fully carry out any video editing such as image treatment, adding text, other sound effects and other actions that can help make the final result much more enriching. .
