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title: "Magic Crop — AI Video Reframing"
description: "A video reframing prototype that follows subjects and action to turn widescreen footage into vertical edits."
url: "https://jamesxdigital.com/magic-crop/"
---

Prototype

# Magic Crop

AI video reframing that follows the subject and action

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9_10IvIg4w)

From widescreen footage to a vertical edit that follows the action.

Magic Crop is an AI video-reframing prototype for turning widescreen footage into vertical edits. Preview the reframed video, then download the result.

## Keep the action in frame

A fixed crop can lose a moving subject. Here, the vertical frame follows the skater through the widescreen footage as the action moves.

![16:9 source footage with a crop that auto-tracks the skater, alongside the matching 9:16 output.](https://jamesxdigital.com/_astro/feature-visual-raster-v3-transparent.Bcm51RzK_23pEjS.webp)

## Choose what the viewer sees

With several people in a scene, a vertical edit has less room for context. This illustration shows how framing one participant changes a wide conversation into a close-up.

![An illustration of a 16:9 conversation with three people, a crop selecting the gesturing person, and the matching 9:16 output.](https://jamesxdigital.com/_astro/context-visual-raster-v1-transparent.CcFjgTXj_1i4i0n.webp)

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