A straight center-crop to 9:16 loses the action the moment your subject moves. CleanReel's smart crop tracks faces and motion with a smooth virtual camera, so your landscape clip becomes a vertical that stays on the subject.
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Real capture: the subject tracker keeps the crop centered as the clip reframes to 9:16.
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Crops lose framing and blur boxes draw the eye. CleanReel reconstructs the background with neural inpainting and shows a quality score, so the edit is invisible — and previews are free, so a result that isn't clean costs nothing.
Choose Fit + blurred bars instead of smart crop — the full frame stays visible over cinematic blurred padding.
Yes — tap the frame to pin the crop center, or leave it on auto face & motion tracking.
They help a lot — CleanReel's Captions mode transcribes speech and burns in styled captions, with a free .srt download.
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