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Drop the long video
A YouTube video, a Twitch VOD or a podcast. One recording is enough.
Vertical
From a long video
to a TikTok
Drop a YouTube video, a Twitch VOD or a podcast. The strongest moments are cut in 9:16, with captions inside the TikTok, Reels and Shorts safe zones. Free exports 1080×1920.
- Safe zones switch from TikTok to Reels to Shorts.
- The 16:9 master stays. The phone cut is its own sequence.
- 4K vertical stays with Creator and Ultimate.
How it goes
One recording, several phone videos
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The shorts arrive vertical
Each strong moment is already a 9:16 sequence. If the source was 16:9, the frame follows the face. You can still move it.
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Check the safe zone, then export
Captions stay clear of the like column and the bottom description. Free writes 1080×1920.
Native canvases
Open a 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5 sequence. Titles, effects and the viewer are in that frame from the first cut. You are not cropping a landscape timeline on the way out.
Platform safe zones
Turn on the overlay for TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts. Username, caption block, like column and the bottom description are drawn on the preview. Move type until it clears them.
Auto reframe
Mark a face, a product or the action. When a 16:9 interview becomes vertical, the frame follows. Pin a line if it should hold, then let it travel again. Every keyframe stays editable.
Templates
Hook, list, talking head, product demo, before and after, podcast clip, tutorial step, split reaction, duet stack, and a quote card. Drop your media into the slots. Free includes the starter set. Creator and Ultimate open the full library.
Kinetic captions
Word-by-word highlight, line builds, and type sized for a phone. Styles save with the project so a daily series stays consistent, and they stay inside the safe zone you turned on.
Auto zoom
On a talking-head template, Night Calibre can punch in on the line that carries the point, then return to the wide. Delete any zoom you do not want. The others stay.
Split layouts
Two shots stacked, a reaction beside the main, or a podcast pair that was recorded wide and now has to live on a phone. Layouts are templates inside the timeline, not a separate mode.
One master, three files
On Creator and Ultimate, a 16:9 timeline can publish vertical, square and 4:5 adaptations that share the edit. Change a word once. Each ratio keeps its own reframe.
Series kits
A recurring lower third, episode number, progress bar and end card, so a daily series looks like one show. Included with the full template library on Creator and Ultimate.
Covers and end cards
Set the cover frame, and an end card that holds long enough for a profile tap. Sizes follow the canvas you are in, not a generic 16:9 slate.
Length and loudness
The export panel warns at 15 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds, 3 minutes and 10 minutes. Loudness is checked against common platform targets before the file is written.
Export sizes
Free writes 1080×1920, 1080×1080 and 1080×1350 H.264. Creator and Ultimate add 4K vertical, higher bitrates, and a batch of every ratio in one pass.
Where each tool lives
Free
Best-moment clips in 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5, safe zones, starter templates, kinetic captions, auto zoom, auto reframe, and 1080p export.
Creator
The full template library, series kits, 4K vertical, and one master adapted to vertical, square and 4:5.
Ultimate
Everything in Creator, plus batch export of every ratio with the QC notes used on the rest of the suite.
The moments from a long video land here, already framed for the phone. Windows 10 and 11.