Most vertical clips start life as part of something longer. The trick is to cut them from the same project instead of spinning up a parallel edit: duplicate the timeline, reframe, and keep one story in one place.
A vertical cut is mostly an attention problem: keep the speaker centred, crop the empty space, and move the frame when the action does. The reframe pass happens on a duplicated timeline, so the landscape master stays untouched.
Every platform reserves the edges of a vertical frame for its own interface, and captions that ignore that get hidden behind buttons. Keep a margin guide on and place text well inside it.
Vertical viewing is impatient: cuts come in tighter, captions are larger, and every second of throat clearing taxes the completion rate. The timeline tools are the same; the rhythm is not.
Short-form platforms are forgiving on codec and strict on aspect: 1080x1920, a healthy bitrate, loudness near minus fourteen LUFS, and the same file works across shorts, reels and TikTok.
Vertical video questions that come up before a first render.
Yes. Duplicate the timeline inside the project: the vertical cut inherits the media, the grade and the audio mix, and the landscape master stays untouched.
For most footage a generous crop and two or three keyframes are enough. Talking-head interviews reward tracking; b-roll usually holds still.
1080x1920 at 25 or 30 frames, H.264 at a healthy bitrate, loudness near minus fourteen LUFS integrated. Saved as a preset, the format question disappears from every future edit.
For silent autoplay, yes. Burned-in captions respect your safe-area margins, and the caption source can stay as a subtitle track if another upload needs it.
The studio is one project with several pages. These are the pages that usually come before and after this one.
Open the studio, duplicate the timeline and reframe; the landscape edit is still exactly where you left it.
