- Vertical is the most important form
of video content nowadays.
The 9:16 aspect ratio, (graphic pops)
we see it on Instagram Stories,
Instagram Reels, (graphic pops)
TikToks. (graphic pops)
YouTube Shorts, (graphic pops)
Snapchats, (graphic pops)
and many, many more, it just doesn't stop,
vertical video.
(screen wipe whooshes) And my problem is,
is I have a lot of videos that are actually filmed
with the landscape 16:9 aspect ratio.
So if you're like me and you have the same problem,
I'm gonna show you how you convert
your landscape videos to vertical videos.
That way you can repurpose all of your content
and you don't have to re-shoot everything.
So I'm gonna be turning this
to this. (graphic pops)
And the tool I'm gonna be using to do it,
VEED.IO, an online video editor,
link in the description.
So once I'm on VEED,
the first step is to click Create Video
and then click Create Project.
So here now, as you can see,
we're taken into the video editor,
where I can upload my file.
And I can actually drag and drop,
so I'm just gonna open up my folders template here.
I've got an old YouTube video
which I want to repurpose into new content.
I'm just gonna drag, drop, and now it's uploaded into VEED.
And if I click play, (mouse clicks)
What's up guys, Alec here
and in this video, I'm gonna be telling you...
(mouse clicks)
As you can see, this has the 16:9 aspect ratio,
and I wanna turn it into a 9:16 aspect ratio
so it fits on TikTok, Instagram Stories,
Instagram Reels, Shorts, you name it.
And the best thing is this is actually really easy to do.
All we have to do is actually go into the top left,
under Project Settings,
and here we have the Size drop down menu.
Now here, we currently have original size selected,
but if we click on it, we can actually scroll down
and see a bunch of different aspect ratios.
And if I scroll down,
we can actually see the aspect ratio that we're looking for.
Instagram Story or TikTok, the 9:16 aspect ratio.
It's the same one, just gonna click select it.
And there you go, as you can see now,
my video is vertical.
I have the 9:16 aspect ratio,
with my clip in the middle.
And now you might be saying,
"Yes, okay, Alec,
that is a video with a 9:16 aspect ratio format,
but I could have just zoomed out on my phone."
Well, as you can see here, if I click on it,
I can actually resize it
and make it fill the exact place I want to
and sit in the exact space I want to,
on my 9:16 aspect ratio canvas.
So now if I press play, (mouse clicks)
Why you need to be posting Instagram...
And now, the magic behind it is that I'm gonna trim this,
'cause I'm repurposing this YouTube video
into multiple different pieces of content.
I'm gonna trim off the end,
find a part that I like.
So now, as you can see, I've just taken a minute
to quickly find the area that I want to turn into
a small clip for my Instagram Reels,
and I'm just gonna move this about,
and I'm gonna drag it to the beginning of the timeline,
so now, if I play it-
You should start posting Instagram Reels on your account
if you want to grow, you should stop...
As you can see, that's perfect.
Now I'm just gonna quickly click on Fit,
so it takes the entirety of the timeline
and it's a little bit zoomed in,
so I can edit it with more precision.
Now I can actually add some titles, text,
subtitles, images, as I want,
to make it a little bit more dynamic.
But the first thing I'm gonna start with is,
in Elements, I'm actually gonna choose a progress bar
and I'm just gonna select this one right here.
Now I'm just gonna drag it
and place it at the bottom of my video.
Actually, what I might do, is just hit Delete on my keyboard
and choose a square one,
so I can keep it flush with the edge, just like so,
drag it out.
And the magic of this is that
it will automatically animate through the video
Start posting Instagram Reels on your account-
Okay, I'm gonna move it down a bit,
so it's flush with the bottom of the clip as well.
If you want to grow...
Amazing.
And then what I'm gonna do is add some subtitles.
Click Subtitles, Auto Subtitle,
select the language that I'm talking in, within the video,
hit Start.
And then VEED is gonna take anywhere
between a few seconds to a few minutes,
depending on the length of your clip
and the speed of your internet,
to automatically generate subtitles
from the audio of your video.
And now, in the few seconds that it took me to say that,
as you can see, the subtitles have now appeared,
and if I click Play-
Should start posting Instagram Reels on your account
if you want to...
Okay, now this is perfect,
but as you can see, the placement of them, isn't amazing.
So I'm just gonna click and drag them down a bit.
I might make them just a little bit bigger
and squeeze them together a little bit more,
so they're easier to read.
Now, the reason I'm putting subtitles on my content
is because a lot of people swipe through Instagram Stories,
through Reels with the sound off,
this way, they're still gonna be able to
consume my content with the sound off.
This is gonna drive my engagement up.
And now the last thing,
I wanna make sure that people stop
when they come across my Reels.
How do I do that?
A hook.
And a hook for this one is, "Do this to grow on Instagram."
So I'm just gonna head over to the Text tab,
click Headline Title,
and I'm gonna write, "Do this to grow on Instagram."
Perfect. Just like this.
First of all, I'm gonna make it white,
so it stands out on the black backdrop, just like so.
Drag it out a little bit.
And there we go.
I might add a return, so it fits a little better.
There we go.
And I've realized I've got a mistake,
just gonna fix that.
And now, as you'll notice,
I've added my text but it's not showing up
through the entirety of the video.
This is because it added where my playhead was.
If I'd placed it at the beginning,
it would've added at the start,
but again, to change this, I can just click and drag it out.
I can click to move it around on my timeline.
I want the title to be there from the entire thing,
so I'm just gonna drag it around
to each end of the clip.
So now if I press Play.-
To start posting Instagram Reels
on your account if you want to...
Okay, next thing I'm gonna do
is actually change the color of my background.
So to do this, I'm just gonna go to Settings
and change the color
and we might make it something a little bit more flashy,
maybe this little pink here.
And then I'm gonna change the color of my progress bar,
again, maybe something a little bit more flashy, like a,
like I think this color theme is looking pretty good.
Subtitles, I'm gonna change the style
and we're gonna change the style, let's say,
find some ones that I like.
I like these ones with the drop shadow.
Then I might actually add a little bit of drop shadow,
just by clicking on more options on my text.
And then, let's just see, click on Drop Shadow, right here,
and then change the color of my drop shadow to black.
So now as you can see.-
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And then the last thing I might do
to make this even more relevant,
is just add the little Instagram logo.
And now there's a couple of ways I can do this.
So I can just click on Media and then upload the file
if I have a picture of the Instagram logo,
but I've already added it to my brand kit.
So as you can see, I've added a few icons here,
that I use frequently,
and then I can just click Instagram logo.
It appears
and then I'm just gonna hold down Shift,
to keep the aspect ratio the 1:1 as I change it,
otherwise, you'll see if I don't hold down Shift,
it goes funny.
If I hold down Shift, I can't adjust it.
And then just place it somewhere like this,
just like that and make it a little bit more aesthetic,
just like so.
And again, the Instagram logo
disappears at the beginning of the video,
because my playhead was placed in the wrong place.
So I'm just gonna click and drag this to the beginning
and then drag it out all the way, just like that.
And there we go.
Here's my landscape video that I've converted
into a vertical video.-
Posting Instagram Reels...
So once I'm happy with it,
all I have to do is click on Export, in the top-right,
and then I want to make sure
I burn the subtitles into the video,
this means they'll be baked into the actual MP4 file,
so they won't disappear on render.
And then I can choose,
let's see, I wanna choose
the Instagram recommended export settings,
so it uploads with the best quality possible to Instagram,
and then click Export, just like so.
VEED then takes anywhere between a few seconds
to a few minutes, again, depending on the size
and the speed of my internet.
And then once it's finished rendering
as we can see, I can preview it.
You should start post...
If I'm not happy I can click on Edit.
I can share it directly through a link,
but I wanna download it as an MP4,
so I can then upload it to Instagram.
And I can also open my VEED account up on my phone
and then download the project straight to my phone.
And that is how to convert landscape videos to vertical.
Thanks for watching.