If you’ve arrived here you have probably been struggling trying to get your portrait orientation videos to show up on social media without the black boxes on the sides. When I search for a “how to” tip I appreciate when the site I land on gets right to the point, so here goes:

Step 1: Shoot your video in portrait mode on a smart phone.
You don’t have to but I’m assuming you already have a video shot in vertical mode and you just want it to fill the screen when someone views it on social media.

Step 2: Download two apps
On iOS device you will need RFV (Rotate & Flip Video) and iMovie.
On Android device you can do the same thing with Googles Photo app and Perfect Video

Step 3: Rotate Video
Open RFV (on iOS), open your video and rotate it 90 degrees and “save” to your camera roll.

Step 4: Open iMovie, create a project and upload your clip. Next, export the video to your camera roll.

Step 5: Open RFV again, open the video you just exported from iMove and rotate it back to vertical and save it to your camera roll for the last time.

Step 6: Upload the video to Facebook or other social media platform.