Add Border to Video
Add a professional colored border or padding around your video. Set independent sizes for each side and pick any color — great for framing, letterboxing, or matching brand aesthetics.
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How It Works
Upload your video
Set border sizes and pick a color
Process and download
Features
Use Cases
Add letterbox bars for cinematic look
Frame videos in brand colors
Add padding for platform-specific requirements
Padding, not painting
The tool works by canvas expansion: the output frame is made larger by your chosen amounts and the new area is filled with your color, with the original video placed inside. Nothing overlaps the footage — unlike an overlay, a border costs zero content. Per-side control is what makes it more than decoration: 100 pixels top and bottom with zero sides is a letterbox; 60 pixels on the bottom alone is a caption strip; 20 all around is a print-style frame.
Uneven borders have a quietly practical use for social formats: padding a 16:9 video top and bottom with color moves it toward square or vertical without cropping a single pixel — the deliberate-frame alternative to the blur-fill approach in Crop for Social.
Frames as identity and function
A consistent border is one of the cheapest forms of visual branding available: same color, same thickness, every clip — a feed of your videos becomes recognizable at scroll speed. White frames read gallery-clean for portfolios and product clips; black reads cinematic; brand hues read intentional in a way no filter can.
Functionally, the added area is real estate. A bottom strip gives captions somewhere to live that never covers the action, top strips hold titles, and colored margins keep busy footage from bleeding into a platform's white or black UI. Add the border last, after color and cropping decisions, so the frame wraps the final image.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much border can I add, and where?
Each side — top, right, bottom, left — takes its own thickness from 0 to 150 pixels, so you can build symmetric frames, letterbox bars, or a single caption strip. The border is added around the frame (padding), so your video content is never covered or cropped.
Can I pick any border color?
Yes, any hex color. Black and white cover most jobs — cinematic bars and gallery frames respectively — but brand colors turn a plain clip into something recognizably yours across a feed.
Does adding a border change the video's dimensions?
Yes, by design: a 1920x1080 video with 40 pixels on all sides becomes 2000x1160. If the destination needs exact dimensions, either account for the addition or run Resize afterwards to scale the framed result back to target.
What is the difference between a border and a vignette?
A border is a hard geometric frame of solid color added outside the image; a vignette is a soft darkening inside the image's corners. Border reads as graphic design, vignette as optics. They stack, too — a vignette inside a thin white border is a classic gallery look.
Is quality affected?
The video re-encodes once at visually lossless CRF 23 with audio copied untouched. The original pixels are unchanged — they are simply set inside a larger canvas.
Often Used Together
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