Reframe any video to vertical 9:16 without touching a crop tool
Auto-Reframe uses AI speaker tracking to convert widescreen footage into full-screen vertical — keeping whoever's talking perfectly in frame.
Your speaker, always in frame
Point Clipo at a 16:9 recording and it follows the active speaker across the whole video, cropping to 9:16 as it goes. For multi-person podcasts it switches between speakers as they talk; for two-up conversations it can split the screen so both stay visible.
How it works
Why a fixed centre crop doesn't work
The obvious way to make a widescreen video vertical is to crop the middle and hope for the best. It fails almost immediately: in a two-person interview the centre of the frame is usually the gap between them, so the vertical version is a shot of a wall with two half-faces at the edges. Cropping to one side fixes it until the other person starts talking.
Auto-Reframe tracks who is actually speaking across the whole recording and moves the crop to follow them, switching as the conversation moves back and forth. Where two people talk over each other constantly, a split-screen layout keeps both in frame instead of chasing the audio. The result is footage that reads as though it were shot vertically, from a recording that wasn't.
Up and running in three steps
Upload a widescreen video
Drop in any 16:9 recording or paste a link.
AI reframes to vertical
Speaker tracking crops to 9:16 and follows whoever's talking.
Fine-tune & export
Adjust the framing per segment if you like, then export.
Getting the most out of it
Practical tips
Give the tracker room at the edges
Speakers sitting right at the left and right edges of a wide frame leave nothing to crop around. A little headroom and shoulder room in the original recording produces noticeably better vertical output.
Use split-screen for genuine two-ups
If your guests interrupt each other often, split-screen beats reactive switching — constant cuts between speakers are more distracting than a static two-up.
Check the crossfade points, not the whole clip
Reframing is reliable in the middle of a turn and hardest at the moment speakers change. Scrub the switch points rather than watching the whole thing back.
Who it's for
In practice
Interview podcasts
A 60-minute two-camera conversation becomes a set of vertical clips where the crop follows whoever has the floor, with no per-clip keyframing.
Webinars and conference talks
A fixed wide camera on a stage crops to the speaker rather than to the empty half of the stage, so slides-and-presenter recordings still work vertically.
Talking-head recordings
Single-speaker footage shot off-centre gets recentred automatically, which matters most when the framing drifts as someone moves.
Frequently asked questions
Auto-Reframe uses AI speaker tracking to follow the active speaker across your widescreen video and crop to vertical 9:16 automatically, keeping them in frame the whole time.
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