Feature
A vertical version of your cut, in one step
Cut it wide once. Make a 9:16 version that keeps what is moving in frame and never pans across a cut. Titles, and captions on Creator and up, are laid out again for the tall frame.
Instead of rebuilding a whole cut by hand, shot by shot, every time it needs to go out as a short.
- For Creators, Editors, Post houses
- Plans Every plan, including Free
The episode is cut. Now it needs to go out as shorts, and every one of them is tall. Doing that by hand means going through the cut again and moving the frame on every shot. B/side gives you that pass in one step, so you start from a vertical cut that is nearly there.
How it works for you
Choose Deliver ▸ Make a Vertical Version… and B/side makes a second cut from the one you are in, framed 9:16.
- It keeps what is moving in frame. Each shot is framed on the part of the picture where something is happening.
- It never pans across a cut. Each shot gets its own framing, so the frame never slides from one shot into the next.
- A still shot stays still. When a presenter stops to deliver a line, the framing stays where it was instead of wandering.
- It tells you what it could not frame. A shot it cannot place is centred and counted, for example “Vertical version of 34 shots, 3 centred”. Three to check in thirty-four is a draft worth finishing, and you know it now rather than at the end.
A cut of its own
Your wide cut is untouched. The vertical version is a separate cut, so you can make it shorter, drop a shot that only works wide, and nudge any framing you would choose differently. The wide one stays exactly as you left it.
Titles and captions, laid out again
Lower thirds made in B/side are laid out again for the tall frame, so a name super does not hang off the edge. So are captions, on Creator and up. A graphic you added as a picture file is not, because it is a picture rather than something B/side lays out. Check those by eye.
Or cut it tall from the start
Cut vertical, square, 4:5 or any size from the start. Drop in phone clips and the new cut is vertical already. Safe zones show where TikTok, Reels, Shorts and Stories put their own captions and buttons, so nothing important sits under them. On every plan, including Free.
Out as a real vertical file
Export gives you a 1080 by 1920 file, with that size already chosen. On every plan, including Free.
Questions
Does it change my original cut?
No. The vertical version is a cut of its own. Trim it or drop shots from it, and none of that reaches the wide one.
What happens to my titles and captions?
Titles made in B/side are laid out again for the vertical frame, and so are captions, which come with Creator and every plan above it. A graphic you added as a picture file stays as it is, because it is a picture rather than something B/side lays out.
What if it cannot tell where to frame a shot?
It centres that shot and tells you how many it did that to, so you know which shots to check before anyone else sees them.
What size does it export?
A real 1080 by 1920 file. The export already has that size chosen, because the cut knows what frame it is for.
Which plan do I need?
Making a vertical version is on every plan, including Free. Captions are on Creator and up.