5 Ways to Resize Video & Change the Video Resolution

You might find many occasions where you need to crop or resize video files, such as sending a video via E-mail, uploading videos to YouTube, etc. You should resize videos to fit the standards. Therefore, you have to change the video size to adjust the resolution or change the aspect ratio, which may also offer a better watching experience. The article explains the best ways to resize video and change video resolution online and offline.

Part 1. The Easiest Way to Resize a Video & Change Video Resolution

If you are searching for an easy way to resize your video for Instagram, TikTok or enhance your works in video resolution, aspect ratio, then what you need is a professional video editor to help you with that - Tipard Video Converter Ultimate. This excellent program can help you resize your videos quickly and maintain high video quality with only a few clicks.

• 1. Resize the video footage and scale the frame size just the way you like it.
• 2. Edit any video file with cropping, rotating, watermarking, clipping, adding filters, etc.
• 3. Enhance and optimize the video quality after you resize your videos.
• 4. Support resizing videos on all types of formats, including MP4, MKV, MTS, etc.

How to Resize Videos on Tipard Video Converter Ultimate

Usually if the video files are too large, it will be difficult to upload the video to YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram. Therefore, you can resize the video to reduce it into a more fitted version. Rather than crack your brain to figure out complicated procedure like how to resize videos in FFmpeg, you can grasp this easy and efficient chance to resize your videos in Tipard Video Converter Ultimate.

Go to the Toolbox tab. Click the Video Compressor button and then add a video to reduce the video size.

You can change the size of the video by adjusting the ratio slider behind the Size. You can also choose to change the value of the Resolution or Video Bitrate. After that, select a path to save the output video and click the Compress button to confirm the adjustment.

How to Change Video Resolution for TV

When you use some video files for HDTV, you have to improve video quality to resize video. And then you can enjoy a better preview of the video by change resolution of video for TV.

Go to the Toolbox tab and find Video Enhancer. Select the video you want to upscale.

The program provides multiple options to enhance video with resizing. You can upscale resolution, optimize brightness and contrast, remove video noise and reduce video shaking.

Just click the Enhance button to refine the video and enjoy a better playback experience. You can even change the size of video to 4K UHD for HD TV.

How to Crop Videos or Change Aspect Ration

Besides changing resolution of video files, you might also need to resize video by cropping video or changing aspect ratio in order to fit for a device, especially when you need to resize 4:3 video files to 16:9 or customize the video file. You might also need to rotate video for iPhone or other devices.

Open Converter then click Add Files or drag-and-drop the video files to the program when you need to crop the video or change the aspect ratio. After uploading the file, you need to click the Edit button next to the video snapshot.

You can resize the video either by cropping the area to get the desired part or selecting the Aspect Ratio to fit for a certain device. Click OK to save the changes.

And then you can click the Convert All button in the main interface to adjust video files size with a different aspect ratio or frame.

Part 2. 4 Ways to Resize Videos on Windows/Mac and Online

There are many other methods to resize your video on your desktop. For example, some professional editors like Premiere, can easily resize a video with many methods. Your MacBook also has built-in video editing programs that can resize your videos without extra installation. Moreover, you can find some video resizers online.

Use Free Video Resizer to Change Video Resolution

You can resize your video files easily and quickly on Free Video Resizer for any destination online.

What you need to do is to first open the Free Video Resizer website, and select a video for resizing by clicking the Upload your video button.

Then choose the platform for your resized result and find the wanted aspect ratio for cropping your video on the customized area right below. Finally, click Download to generate your setting for the adjusted version.

How to Resize a Video in Premiere

You can turn to Adobe Premiere Pro for help to crop your videos with the following steps.

After importing your video file, you will see Effects below. Search Crop in the search bar and you can see the coming area above shown for you to adjust the crop size. Then you can drag the bar following different aspects directly and adjust the amount to the most suitable one.

Or you can tap on Opacity to reach Free Draw Bezier while zooming out the video window to fit with the setting. Then you are free to draw the outline and create a video in a new size and frame.

How to Crop a Video in iMovie

iMovie is a useful tool to resize your videos especially for Mac users. When cropping your videos into a new size, you can open the project and choose Crop button on the toolbar. With the cropping tools coming as follow, you can Crop to Fill to adjust the size of your video freely.

For more modification on your video such as resolution, quality and compression, you can visit the menu bar, click File and then Share. In the File selection you can unfold the box and for video format, resolution and more and adjust them to your favorite.

Crop your Video by QuickTime Player

QucikTime Player is a tool applied for playing media files. Also it can be used to record and edit your video files by connecting to a mask from Photoshop.

If you are interested in this app for video cropping, you can first move to Edit and click Copy button on QuickTime after you input an image to get its frame. Then you should open Photoshop and create a mask by going to the File and paste the image. Select the desired part using Rectangular Marquee Tool in black and the outside area white. Save the file in GIF or TIFF.

Now you can return QuickTime Player to open the video and the mask through Windows- Show Movie Properties-Visual Settings. With all set, you will get a resized video in a specific frame. Click Export to save your result.

Part 3. FAQs of Resizing Videos

Conclusion

With the wonderful tools for video resizing and enhancement including resolution, aspect ratio, etc., you can easily resize videos to make them more beautiful and fit many socials or platforms. It seems convenient to resize video online, but it depends much on your network connection to upload and download the video. Some high-tech or built-in video editors either are difficult to use or have little extra features to resize your videos easily. The best selection should be Tipard Video Converter Ultimate. This powerful program can resize your video easily while maintaining or increasing the video quality. Moreover, it offers many other editing features and is very easy to use.