Instagram Video Editor

Create scroll-stopping videos for Instagram with Kapwing's online video maker. Subtitles, filters, effects, and more—get started for free.

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Edit Instagram videos and grow your following

Growing your Instagram following? You'll need videos that stand out and capture attention. Kapwing's video editor for Instagram can help. Our tool is packed with features for making unique, scroll-stopping Instagram Reels, Stories, and longer-form videos. Access unique and super-polished Instagram templates, video filters, automatic subtitles, stickers and emoji, and even custom animations. All these features are available right in your browser—there's no software to download! You can edit everything online.

Are you building your social media presence across multiple platforms? Our Instagram video maker helps you quickly cross-post any video to and from popular social media platforms: Instagram to TikTok, Instagram to YouTube, YouTube to Instagram, and so much more. Kapwing's automatic video resizer also makes it easy to tailor-fit your videos to the correct dimensions in just two clicks, and it's free to use.

How to edit videos for Instagram

Upload a video for Instagram
Select the video you'd like to edit for Instagram and upload it to the Kapwing editor.
Edit your Instagram video online
Apply filters, effects, subtitles, stickers, or even add subtitles to ensure your video is ready for Instagram. Automatically resize or crop your video to square, landscape, or vertical formats for Instagram posts, Reels, and Stories. Customize every detail of your video until it's perfect.
Download and post to Instagram
Click on the 'Export Project' button in the top right of the editor once you're finished to download and share your new video on Instagram.

The all-in-one video editor for Instagram

Make Instagram videos that stand out

Most video editors aren't built with Instagram and social media in mind. Kapwing is different—we're a web-based editor used by content creators and marketing teams who need to succeed on Instagram. That's why our Instagram video maker includes must-have features like magic subtitles, trending templates, one-click resize and repurposing, brand kits, and unique tools like our Instagram Reels safe zones overlay. With Kapwing, you can create engaging content for Instagram faster than ever before.

Repurpose Instagram content to any platform

The secret to social media? Smart repurposing that takes winning posts from one platform and shares them to another. With Kapwing, content repurposing is made easy. Use our AI-powered tools to automatically resize and format your existing Instagram content to republish on other social media channels. Or, take successful videos from YouTube and TikTok and reformat them to work perfectly as Instagram videos, Reels, and Stories. Create once and publish everywhere with Kapwing.

Try our built-in Instagram video templates to start

There's nothing more intimidating than a blank page—or an empty video editor. With Kapwing, you can start with any of our dozens of video templates for Instagram and customize them to fit your style and brand. Or, try out Kapwing's one-click editing options for video details like subtitles, in-video images, emoji, progress bars, voice over and "storytime" tools, and much more. Beginner content creators love Kapwing, but advanced Instagram users can take our pro features even further.

Discover even more features on Kapwing

Add Subtitles

Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.

Subtitle Video

Smart Cut

Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.

Remove Silences

Resizer

Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.

Resize Video

Background Remover

With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.

Remove Background

Clean Audio

Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.

Remove Audio Background

Collaborative editing

Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.

Start Editing

Trimmer

Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.

Trim Video

Waveforms

Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.

Add a Waveform

Unlimited Overlays

Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.

Add an Overlay

Stock Assets

Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.

Try Plugins

Templates

Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.

See All Templates

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I edit a video for my Instagram?

Upload your video to Kapwing in any dimensions, click on the 'Resize Canvas' tool in the right sidebar, then select Instagram. Edit your video with effects, filters, and more. Then click 'Export Project' to download and share. It's that easy!

What's the best size for Instagram video?

The aspect ratio for Instagram videos is 9:16. Instagram also recommends 1080 pixels wide and 1920 pixels tall for Instagram Stories. Kapwing will automatically resize any video to the Instagram dimensions after you click on 'Crop' and then select the 9:16 aspect ratio.

How can I resize a video for Instagram?

Upload or drag-and-drop a video file into Kapwing. Then click on 'Crop' in the right sidebar. Now select the 9:16, which are the dimensions used by Instagram Reels, Stories, and videos. Your video will automatically resize to the correct dimensions for Instagram. Now you can continue editing, or download and share!

How can I repost videos to Instagram?

Upload any video file to Kapwing. Now, click on the 'Resize Canvas' button on the right side of the Kapwing editor. Select the 9:16 aspect ratio for Instagram. Kapwing will now reformat your video for Instagram's dimensions. Click on 'Export Project' when you're ready to download your video and post it to your Instagram account.

How can I make Instagram videos with music?

Upload your video into Kapwing. Click on the 'Audio' button in the left side of the editor. Now, upload a separate music or audio track, or choose from hundreds of royalty-free songs available right inside Kapwing.

What's different about Kapwing?

Easy

Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.

Free

Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.

Accessible

Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.

Online

Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.

No spam or ads

We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.

Powerful

Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.

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