How to get a proper landscape cut out of a vertical video
Upload the vertical video and ask Vizard Agent for a proper landscape version. Vizard Agent measures where the real picture ends and the padding begins by reading the border rows and columns, crops to the true content, then upscales the result back to full resolution rather than shipping a small frame.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask for full landscape rather than just landscape, and say what has to stay in frame. Vizard Agent treats the word "full" as an instruction to upscale the crop back to a proper delivery resolution. Saying what must survive matters too, because landscape from vertical always loses something and that choice should be yours.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Most of the work is measurement. A padded vertical file looks like one picture but is really a smaller picture inside a frame, so Vizard Agent reads individual rows and columns of pixels to find where the real image stops before it crops anything. Cropping the visible rectangle instead wastes a third of what you have. In the session behind this article it:
- Extracted preview frames as a contact sheet, viewed a sample frame from the middle at full size and measured the exact inner frame boundaries.
- Analysed the border pixel rows and checked the left and right boundary columns to confirm where the padding sat.
- Analysed the audio properties and loudness, and listened to the track.
- Cropped a true sixteen by nine frame from the measured content area, then sent it for super-resolution processing and upscaled it to full landscape resolution.
- Checked the upscaled frames' edges for artefacts and rendered the final video: 1920x1080, H.264, 24fps, 13.99 seconds, with AAC audio.
When does this not work well?
This conversion removes picture by definition, and how much depends on how the original was framed. You lose the top and bottom, where a vertical composition puts important things. A moving subject may leave the landscape band, and burnt-in vertical captions usually get cut. Upscaling recovers resolution, not detail, and some videos built for vertical shouldn't be converted at all.
Common questions
Why not just crop it in an editor? A padded vertical file holds a smaller picture inside a larger frame. Vizard Agent measures the real picture, so the crop doesn't waste part of it.
Will the result be full resolution? Yes, if you ask for it. Vizard Agent upscales the crop back to a proper delivery size.
Can Vizard Agent keep a moving subject in frame? Yes, with a tracking crop, and it costs more of the picture at the edges.