How to resize video online for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook

Eric Lu
Kapwing
Published in
2 min readNov 21, 2017

In this short guide I’ll show you how to perfectly resize your videos to fit popular social media platforms

  1. After you have filmed and edited your video so that it is ready to publish, open the Kapwing online video resizer.
Kapwing: the online video resizer

2. Upload your video. Or, if your video is on YouTube, Vimeo, or some other website, paste the URL to your video.

3. Select the aspect ratio. You can size your videos to 1:1 for Instagram, 16:9 for Instagram/Snap stories, 9:16 for YouTube, or 4:5 for Twitter and Facebook.

4. Select fit or crop. Fitting the video will add padding around the video so that it takes up the whole screen with #NoCrop. Cropping your video will cut off the edges of the video to make it take up the whole screen.

Crop and fit to resize

5. Download to publish on social media! Kapwing maintains the video resolution so you don’t lose quality

6. Repeat to syndicate your video content across you social media channels

There are several ways apps and tools that you can use to crop video, but this guide shows you how to use Kapwing. We think Kapwing is the simplest and fastest way to resize videos online :) Hope you agree!

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