Face-aware, not centre-crop
Converting 16:9 to 9:16 discards roughly three-quarters of the horizontal frame. A fixed centre crop cuts a two-person shot in half; face-aware reframing decides where the frame goes based on who is in it.
Vertical video reframer
Convert 16:9 to 9:16 without losing the speaker.
Turn landscape footage into vertical video that keeps the person talking in frame. Reelsmith tracks faces and follows the active speaker, so a wide two-shot becomes a 9:16 clip instead of a crop through the middle of both people.
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Free to try
Your first 10 videos free, up to 1 hour of footage in total.
One-time trial on signup — 10 videos and 1 hour of total footage, whichever runs out first. No card required.
Reelsmith workflowLive preview
Source
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How it works
From upload to finished in three moves.
- 01 Upload landscape footage — a podcast, interview or webinar recording
- 02 Reelsmith detects faces and follows whoever is speaking
- 03 Check the framing on each clip, adjust if needed, and export 9:16 MP4s
What the vertical video reframer gives you.
Follows the active speaker
When a conversation moves between people, the frame moves with the speech instead of staying on one seat. The transcript drives the switch, so it lines up with who is actually talking.
Every frame decision is reviewable
Automatic framing is a proposal. If it picks the wrong person on a cross-talk moment or drifts on a wide shot, you adjust it before anything renders.
Questions, answered.
What is face-aware reframing?
Reframing that uses face detection to choose which part of a landscape frame to keep when converting to vertical. Instead of cropping the centre of the image, it centres on the speaker — and on multi-person shots, on whoever is speaking.
How does converting 16:9 to 9:16 work?
A 9:16 window is placed over the original 16:9 frame and the rest is discarded. The only question is where the window sits. Reelsmith positions it around the detected face and moves it when the speaker changes, rather than locking it to the middle.
Does it work with two or more people on screen?
Yes — that is the case it exists for. On a two-shot the frame follows the active speaker. Overlapping speech is where automatic decisions are least reliable, so review those moments.
Will it work on screen recordings or slides?
Poorly. Reframing looks for faces. Screen shares, slides and product demos have no speaker to follow and usually need a manual layout instead.
Is the vertical video reframer free?
Your first 10 videos are free, up to 1 hour of footage in total. It is a one-time trial granted on signup, not a recurring free plan, and no card is required.
Compare this with the other Reelsmith tools or see the full product overview.
Reelsmith vs other vertical video reframer tools
Each comparison leads with what the other tool does well, then where the Reelsmith workflow differs.