A landscape recording has a person somewhere in it, and a vertical short needs that person in the middle. shortshort places the 9:16 crop on the face on screen, moves it as they move, and lets you correct any keyframe in the same studio.
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The crop is not pinned to the centre of the picture. Face tracking places it on the face on screen, and scene detection resets it when the shot changes, so the crop follows a speaker who shifts across the picture instead of leaving them at the edge, and any keyframe it writes can be corrected by hand.
Emphasis zooms bring the face closer, but only up to x1.6 of the source, so the picture stays sharp rather than magnified into a blur. At x1.0 the crop is a straight 9:16 slice; the bound is the same on every plan.
When the picture is a slide, a shared screen or a wide shot of a room, cropping would cut the content. Those frames are detected and kept in full, with empty space above and below, so text stays legible in the vertical output.
Framing is written as keyframes in the edit. If a cut lands on the wrong person or a zoom feels too tight, drag the frame, change the zoom or lock the keyframe so the tracker stops moving it, then render again.
The same studio for every video; this is the part this page is about.
Not by voice: there is no automatic switching between speakers. The crop is placed on the face on screen and moves with it, and scene detection resets it when the recording itself cuts to another shot. Wide shots are detected and kept full-frame, with space above and below. If a keyframe lands on the wrong person, drag the frame to the face you want or lock that keyframe in the studio, then render again.
No. shortshort renders one format: 1080 x 1920 vertical MP4 at 30 fps, H.264. There is no 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9 export and no 4K or 60 fps option. The Studio plan can export a short's edit plan as JSON for rendering on your own server, but the studio itself produces nothing other than the 9:16 file.
The crop zooms in on the speaker up to x1.6 and moves with them across the stage. Because the zoom stops at x1.6, a very wide or low-resolution source may leave the speaker small; you can then adjust or lock a keyframe on the framing you prefer.
The zoom stops at x1.6 because a crop magnifies the source pixels, and the bound keeps the picture sharp on an ordinary recording. The range x1.0 to x1.6 is the one the AI works within on every plan, and every keyframe it writes can be changed by hand.
Yes. Tracking, full-frame detection for slides and the keyframe editor are in the shortshort studio on every plan, including Free, which allows up to 3 shorts per video with a watermark on the export. Manual framing changes and the MP4 export do not even need an account; the AI analysis does.
No. shortshort works with the single file you upload and only crops and zooms inside it. It does not insert B-roll, stock footage, music or animated titles, and it cannot pull in a second camera angle that is not in the recording.
Free to try with 60 credits. Your source video stays yours; the shorts you export join the community, and a plan keeps them out of it.