CapCut: reframing to vertical
What CapCut's pages say about reframing a video to vertical: smart cropping turns a 16:9 source into a 9:16 clip, tracking the subject. As of 2026-09-25.
Smart cropping and size adaptation can convert a 16:9 source into a 9:16 clip.
CapCut, long video to shorts page
- FAQSmart cropping turns a 16:9 source into a 9:16 clip, tracking the subject
1Apps with the same reading
2short.ai, Choppity, Filmora, Kapwing, OpusClip, Pippit, PowerDirector, VEED and Vizard have the same reading, 10 of the 25 in all.
The reading is the page as it stood on the day read; plans and features move between tiers often.
2Why it matters for short video
A landscape talk cut straight to 9:16 loses whoever stands at the edge. Reframing that tracks faces keeps the speaker in shot, which is why clip makers put it next to clipping.
3CapCut on the other features
- Automatic captions: Automatic captions
- Long video to short clips: Clips cut from a long video
- Generating with AI: New footage from a prompt
- Getting it onto platforms: Not documented on the pages read
- Watermark on exports: Clean exports, plan not stated
- Highest export resolution: Not documented on the pages read
- AI voiceover and dubbing: AI voiceover
- B-roll and stock footage: Not documented on the pages read
- Audio and picture cleanup: Audio cleanup
| App | Reading |
|---|---|
| 2short.ai | Automatic reframing |
| Adobe Express | Resizing to set shapes |
| CapCut | Automatic reframing |
| Captions | Resizing to set shapes |
| Choppity | Automatic reframing |
| Clipchamp | Resizing to set shapes |
| Descript | Not documented on the pages read |
| Edits | Not documented on the pages read |
| Filmora | Automatic reframing |
| Fliki | Not documented on the pages read |
| invideo AI | Not documented on the pages read |
| Kapwing | Automatic reframing |
| OpusClip | Automatic reframing |
| Pictory | Resizing to set shapes |
| Pippit | Automatic reframing |
| PowerDirector | Automatic reframing |
| Quso | Resizing to set shapes |
| Revid | Not documented on the pages read |
| SceneMixer | Vertical from generation, no reframing |
| Submagic | Not documented on the pages read |
| VEED | Automatic reframing |
| Videoleap | Resizing to set shapes |
| Vizard | Automatic reframing |
| Zebracat | Not documented on the pages read |
| Zeemo | Resizing to set shapes |
Inclusion rule. Every app on the register, with or without its own page on this feature. Order. Alphabetical by app name.