How to Make A Square Video with Square Video Maker/App/Editor

How to make a square video fit for Facebook or Instagram or other social media? On this page, you will learn the best square video maker, square video editor, and square video app to make square videos on a Windows desktop PC and laptop.

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Melissa Lee

Updated on Aug 01, 2023

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Square videos, the aspect ratio is 1:1, have become a lot more popular in recent days. Compared with the ubiquitous landscape video, nowadays the square video takes up almost 80% of real estate in social media platforms! Facebook and Instagram, for example, ask you to upload square video contents instead of other sizes, meaning that if you want to make videos fit for Instagram and platforms likewise, you'll need to convert your landscape video 16:9 or 4:3 into square 1:1. Do you knowhow to make a square videoby yourself?

To make a square video, you can initially start by recording a video using the 1:1 frame. However, the case for most of us who request a square video is based on the truth that we already had footage of horizontal, vertical, or even diagonal! You cannotrecord a videowith a square shape in the very first place, but you cancrop video without watermarkwith the help of a simple-to-use square video maker, namely a square video app and square video editor.

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EaseUS Video Editor - Cool Square Video Maker for Desktop

EaseUS Video Editor is widely accepted as avideo editing softwarefor Windows 10/8/7 desktops. The basics of video editing software are for editing videos, images, and music files. But here, you'll be surprised to see how powerful it is to make a perfectly square video from any-size video sources.

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Guide: How to crop a video into a square (1:1)

Step 1.The first time you launch EaseUS Video Editor, you'll need to select an aspect ratio to log into the main screen. After login, clickFile>New Project>1:1 Instagramon the top left menu to start making a square video.

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Step 2.进口your video material. You can directlydrag and dropthe video into the library or click "进口" to upload the video. Next, click the+icon to add the video to the project.

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Step 3.Right-click the video on the timeline and select "Crop".

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Step 4.The crop feature allows you to freely crop borders of a video or crop using the selected aspect ratio. To make a square video precisely, click the box "keep aspect ratio". The crop lines will turn to 1:1, and you need to adjust the position to get the desired part of the video picture and finally create a full video without touching the square shape. Click "OK" when finished.

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Step 5.Export the square video to the desired file format, e.g. MP4, GIF, MKV, AVI, MOV, etc. For your convenience, you can directly choose to upload the square video to a social media website like Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, and many others.

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More than a capable square video maker

EaseUS视频编辑器是一个多平方的视频maker. Most of all, it's thebest movie makeron Windows. As you see, it can create videos of not only a square of 1:1 for Instagram. In fact, it covers all the prevalent video dimensions including Portrait 9:16, Widescreen 16:9, Traditional 4:3, and Taobao 3:4. With the aspect ratio available, you can create whatever video content for specific commercial or social media platforms like a charm.

Whether it's before or after cropping your video into a square size, you can continue editing the video to make it more appealing. For example, add music, texts, overlays, transitions, filters, and many other effects in the templates for free. While for some part of the video picture you don't like, simply add mosaic to the moving part orblur faceof passers-by or strangers.

Can You Make A Square Video Fit for Instagram?

By applying EaseUS Video Editor, the highly recommended square video maker based on Windows platforms, you'll certainly meet nothing difficult to make your own Instagram 1:1 video footage now.

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Admittedly, the more delicate the video is made, the better. Hence, cropping a ready-made video into the proper shape is not the end, try to do some post-production. Editing a video is as easy as a piece of cake in EaseUS cool video editing software. So, spend a little time here and learn how to edit a perfect, eye-catching and popular square video on Instagram.

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