How do I turn a screen recording into a vertical video?
Short answer: Switch on the Vertical step. VideoPolisher crops your wide recording to 9:16 and moves the crop like a camera, so the part of the screen that matters stays in view.
A wide screen recording does not fit a phone. Shrinking it makes everything unreadable, so VideoPolisher crops it instead and moves the crop as the action moves.
Steps
- Open your project and switch on Vertical.
- Choose what the camera follows: your cursor, or let the AI decide (see Should the camera follow my cursor or let the AI decide?).
- Add Captions if you want them; most people watch vertical video without sound.
- Run. You get a 1080 by 1920 video ready for Shorts, Reels and TikTok.
Starting from a finished video
If your video is already polished, create a project with Vertical from a finished video and upload it. Nothing is rewritten or re-narrated; only the vertical version is made.
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Updated 2026-09-24