Reframe

Reframe landscape video into vertical clips for Shorts, Reels, TikTok, and other 9:16 channels.

The Convert to Vertical node is an editing action that changes the visual composition of incoming video or clips. Use it when your workflow starts with landscape footage and should produce vertical output before export.

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Add the node

Open Workflows from the left sidebar and click New to open the workflow builder. Add a trigger first, such as Manual Trigger or New YouTube Video. In the Editing stage, choose Convert to Vertical. Overlap adds the action node to the canvas and connects it to the workflow path. Click the Convert to Vertical node on the canvas whenever you need to reopen its settings on the right side.

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Choose a model

Use Model to decide how Overlap should build the vertical composition.

• Content-Aware Reframing: follows the active speaker and updates the crop or layout as the scene changes. This is the default model and corresponds to the API’s content-aware styles, including adaptive.
• Static Reframing: keeps the source centered in the vertical frame instead of following speakers. This corresponds to style_three in the API.

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Content-Aware Reframing (adaptive)

Use adaptive for speaker-following reframes, especially webinars, remote recordings, screen shares, or other footage with on-screen content. Overlap can switch focus as the active speaker changes and can combine speakers with shared content in the vertical layout.

• Use Split View for Multiple Speakers (split_view): allows a split layout when multiple speakers are visible. Turn it off to keep the reframe in a single-speaker layout.
• Always Prefer Split View (force_split_view): when split view is enabled and at least two people are visible, keeps them in a split layout instead of switching to a single focused speaker.
• Always fill the frame (full_frame_single): single-speaker scenes fill the whole vertical frame instead of sitting in a shorter band with blurred bars above and below. The crop stays on whoever it was following and widens to reach the edges. Wide shots with several people are left padded, since no single vertical crop can hold them all.
• Include on-screen content is the inverse of ignore_content_tiles. When content is included (ignore_content_tiles: false), Overlap can detect a webinar slide, screen share, gameplay, or other content shown beside the speakers and place that content in the lower part of the vertical frame. Set ignore_content_tiles: true to leave those content tiles out and frame the speakers instead.

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Static Reframing (style_three)

Use style_three for a fixed composition. The horizontal source stays centered in the vertical canvas and does not follow the active speaker. At lower zoom levels, the unused space above and below the source is black when Background Blur is off, or filled with a blurred version of the video when it is on. Increase Zoom Level to crop more of the source and fill more of the 9:16 frame; Vertical Position moves the centered source composition up or down.

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Configure the reframe

When Content-Aware Reframing is selected, set How do you film? to match the source footage:

• In-Person Studio: use this for filmed conversations, interviews, panels, or other studio-style recordings.
• Online or with Overlays: use this for screen recordings, remote calls, or videos where overlays are part of the layout.

When Static Reframing is selected, Zoom Level starts at 1x. API values below 1 are normalized to 1x before the reframe request is sent. Use the preview beside the settings panel to check how the workflow will modify clips before you publish the workflow.

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Build the rest of the workflow

Place Convert to Vertical after the node that provides the video or clips you want to reframe. If your workflow finds moments first, connect Find Clips before this node. Add finishing nodes such as Style Video or an export node after the vertical conversion.