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.
Vertical
Made for the phone.
Not cropped onto it.
TikTok, Reels and Shorts are timelines in their own right. 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5, with each app’s interface drawn on the preview while you cut.
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 Pro 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 Sterling 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 Pro, 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 Pro.
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 Pro add 4K vertical, higher bitrates, and a batch of every ratio in one pass.
01
Pick the canvas
9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. 1:1 or 4:5 when the post lives in a feed. The safe-zone overlay matches the app.
02
Drop a template or reframe
Start from a hook, a list or a talking head, or send a finished 16:9 interview through auto reframe and fix the keyframes.
03
Check, then export
Captions clear the like column. Length and loudness are in range. Free writes 1080p. Creator and Pro can batch the other ratios.
On the timeline
The phone frame is the sequence
- Safe zones update when you switch the preset from TikTok to Reels to Shorts.
- Captions from the AI tools land inside that zone, including word-by-word styles.
- A 16:9 master can stay the archive. The vertical cut is a sequence of its own, or an adaptation on Creator and Pro.
- Export is 1080×1920 on Free. 4K vertical stays with Creator and Pro.
Where each tool lives
Free
9:16, 1:1 and 4:5 timelines, 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.
Pro
Everything in Creator, plus batch export of every ratio with the QC notes used on the rest of the suite.
Captions, voice and transcript edits are the same tools, on a vertical sequence.