HermitFile Pro

Fit a video to a new aspect ratio, without black bars

Scales a blurred copy of the frame to fill the space, then draws the sharp original centred on top — nothing is cropped, and the padding looks intentional. Runs entirely on this device. The original audio comes along unchanged if it's AAC.

Drop a video hereTap anywhere in this box
MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM — anything your browser can read. Any length: there is no upload, so there is no limit.

Nothing is uploaded. Open your browser’s Network tab while you convert — you will see the file go nowhere.

Pad settings

Preview updates live as you adjust these — tune it before converting the whole clip.

What you'll get back

Worked out from this actual file and this actual browser, before anything is written.

Range and frame rate

Your video

Two draws, one canvas

Every output frame is the same source frame drawn twice: once scaled up to cover the entire target rectangle and blurred, which fills the bars a plain pad would leave black, and once scaled to fit inside it without cropping, sharp, centred on top of the blur. Nothing about the sharp centre picture is touched — the same pixels, just resized. Nothing is cropped out of the original either; the blurred layer only ever shows in the strips the sharp layer doesn't reach.

Picking a ratio and a blur amount

9:16 is the shape almost every vertical feed expects; 4:5, 1:1, 4:3 and 16:9 cover the rest of the common cases, including fitting a vertical recording into a widescreen slot. More blur hides more of the stretched, low-detail edges of the cover layer, which is usually what looks best — the live preview updates immediately, so there's no guessing.

Why the audio sometimes doesn't survive

The video is genuinely re-encoded, because building the padded picture means drawing new pixels — there is no wrapper trick for that. Audio doesn't need to be, so it is copied across as compressed packets exactly like the site's other video tools do, provided it's AAC. Anything else would need a decoder and an encoder this tool doesn't carry, so it's dropped rather than silently guessed at, and the plan says so before you convert anything.

Nothing is uploaded

Decoding, drawing both layers and video encoding all happen in this page. There is no server here to send the video to, and the page's security policy blocks any connection to anywhere but this site. Here is how that is enforced.

How to blur-pad a video

  1. Drop the video in. Nothing is sent anywhere — the whole file stays on this device.
  2. Pick a target aspect ratio and adjust the blur until the live preview looks right.
  3. Set the range, output size and frame rate, then press Convert and download.

All 39 HermitFile tools

Every one of them runs in your browser. Nothing you open is uploaded, and nothing is stored.

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Image tools

Make a passport photoFinds the face and frames it to a passport specification, then saves at the exact pixel size and under the KB limit. Check my passport photoCheck a passport or visa photo against the rules the authority actually publishes, before you submit it. Check my document uploadCheck a document against a portal’s published format list and size ceiling, before it is silently rejected. Resize to an exact KBHit a pixel size and a KB limit at the same time, without the picture being shrunk behind your back. Crop & rotateCut an exact rectangle by dragging or by typing the numbers. Rotate, flip, and never enlarge. iPhone HEIC to JPGConvert iPhone photos into a format every upload form accepts. Convert formatWebP, AVIF, PNG, JPG and more. Transparency gets the colour you choose instead of turning black. Compress an imageMake the file smaller while the picture stays exactly the same width and height. Clean a fileSee what a file says about you, then remove it — including text under a redaction box. View & remove EXIFSee the camera, timestamp and GPS coordinates hidden in a photo, then save a clean copy. QR code generator & readerEncodes exactly the link you type, with no redirect through anyone else’s domain. Reads codes from an image too. Read text from a scanPull selectable text out of a scanned PDF or a photo of a page, without the scan leaving your device.

Video tools

MOV to MP4Turn an iPhone .mov into an .mp4 by swapping the wrapper, with the video copied across and nothing re-encoded. Trim a videoKeep the part you want. The clip is copied rather than re-encoded, so no quality is lost. Split into partsCut a long recording into pieces short enough to post, without re-encoding any of them. Rotate a videoChange the rotation flag a phone wrote instead of re-encoding the picture. Seconds, not minutes. Remove the soundDrop the audio track and copy every frame across untouched — same quality, same size. Video to MP3Convert a video’s sound to MP3, or lift the original audio out byte for byte with nothing re-encoded. Video to GIFPick a range, a frame rate and a size, and get an animated GIF back with nothing uploaded. Green screen swapSwap a green or blue screen for a solid colour with a live preview, no AI model and no watermark. Silence removerFinds the quiet stretches by listening to the audio and cuts them out, with a timeline showing every cut first. Blur pad to a new ratioFit a video into 9:16, 1:1 or another shape with a blurred background instead of black bars. Compress a videoAim at a Discord, email or WhatsApp limit — or your own — and get an MP4 checked afterwards, not just promised. Noise removerLearns your recording’s own background hiss or hum from a quiet stretch, then subtracts exactly that. Auto-reframeCrops a landscape clip to a new shape and pans the crop to follow the motion, instead of a fixed centre. CaptionsBurns an .srt or .vtt subtitle file into the video as styled, timed on-screen text. Beat syncFinds the beats in the clip's own audio and lands a flash or a zoom-punch on each one. Highlight finderScores a clip by loudness and movement, and ranks the best stretches to cut out, losslessly.

PDF tools

Merge PDFsJoin several PDFs into one, in the order you choose, and rotate pages losslessly. Split PDFPull out a page range, or break a document into one file per page. Compress a PDFShrink the pictures inside the file and leave the text selectable. Refuses to hand back a bigger file. PDF to imagesRender each page to a JPG or PNG at the resolution you choose. PDF to textPull the words out of a PDF and copy them or save a .txt file. Says so when a PDF is a scan. Remove a PDF passwordSave a copy that opens with no password, using the password you already know. Rotate PDF pagesTurn some pages or all of them, permanently, with no loss of quality. Remove PDF pagesName the pages you want gone and get everything else back as one document. Redact a PDFSearch every page for a name or a number, remove the text itself, then check the finished file. Images to PDFCombine photos into one PDF that lands under the KB limit the portal demands. Bank statement to CSVEvery transaction out of a statement PDF as a spreadsheet, and it checks its own total against the closing balance.