📱Smart Crop & Auto-Framing

The modern consumption of video is overwhelmingly vertical (9:16 ratio) on mobile devices, yet most high-quality cinema cameras still shoot in 16:9 widescreen. Converting widescreen to vertical isn't a simple matter of cropping the center; human subjects move. If the crop remains static, the subject will frequently walk completely out of frame.

Smart Auto-Framing uses computer vision models (like YOLO or MediaPipe) to track the subject's face and torso, dynamically panning the cropped window to keep them perfectly centered. This allows creators to shoot once horizontally and deploy natively to every vertical platform without losing visual focus.

The manual way (and why it hurts)

The manual workflow for reframing widescreen to vertical is agonizing. The editor must change the sequence settings to 1080x1920, which instantly crops the sides of their 16:9 footage.

They must then apply position keyframes to the clip, scrubbing through the timeline frame-by-frame and manually dragging the X-axis value left and right to keep the moving subject in the center. If the subject moves erratically, the keyframing becomes a jittery mess, requiring intense bezier curve smoothing to make the artificial camera pan feel natural.

The Vidmoat way

1. Vidmoat replaces the mechanical grind with conversational intelligence. You do not need to navigate complex menus, memorize keyboard shortcuts for the razor tool, or hunt for hidden panels.
2. Simply press Cmd/Ctrl + K from anywhere in the editor to summon the AI Console. Alternatively, if you want the AI to focus on a specific piece of media, select the clip directly on your timeline and click 'AI Prompt' in the action bar.
3. Paste any of the prompt options below into the console and hit Enter. Vidmoat's agentic engine will instantly read your timeline's state, perform all necessary slicing, keyframing, and effects compositing, and render the updated timeline for immediate playback.

Prompts to steal

Convert this sequence to 9:16 vertical format. Use AI subject tracking to ensure the primary speaker remains centered at all times, applying smooth, eased pans when they walk across the original frame.

Convert this sequence to 9:16 vertical format. Use AI subject tracking to ensure the primary speaker remains centered at all times, applying smooth, eased pans when they walk across the original frame. Additionally, apply an ease-in/ease-out curve to all animations and ensure the total duration does not exceed 10 seconds.

Convert this sequence to 9:16 vertical format. Use AI subject tracking to ensure the primary speaker remains centered at all times, applying smooth, eased pans when they walk across the original frame. Surprise me by adding a highly stylized, cinematic flair that matches the mood of the background audio.