Face tracking that crops to verticalwithout decapitations
A centre crop puts your speaker's forehead at the edge of the frame. Shorz follows the face instead — through the whole clip, through every zoom — so landscape footage becomes a clean vertical short.
How to use the face tracking in three steps
Every long video you've already published is sitting at 16:9, and every vertical platform wants 9:16. The naive fix — crop the middle — works until the speaker leans, stands, or gestures. Face tracking makes the crop follow the person, which is the entire reason repurposed clips look native instead of accidental.
Import the landscape footage
A recording from your PC, or a video pulled straight in from a YouTube, TikTok, Facebook or Instagram link. Shorz reads the frame and finds the speaker.
File or link
Switch the project to vertical
Pick 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, 1:1 for square feeds, or stay at 16:9. Face tracking recalculates the crop for the new shape.
9:16 · 1:1 · 16:9
Let it follow — or take over
The crop tracks the face for the whole clip, including through auto-zoom punch-ins. If a shot needs a specific framing, override it manually in seconds.
Automatic, with a manual override
Find it in the app under Settings panel → Face Tracking.
Why Face Tracking in Shorz
Built for repurposing, not just recording
Face tracking is what makes Clipping work: a two-hour podcast becomes vertical shorts where the speaker is centred in every one. Combine it with auto captions and you have a native-looking short from footage that was never shot for it.
Powers clipping
Zooms that don't break the framing
Auto Zoom punches in; face tracking decides where. The two run together, so an aggressive zoom on a moving speaker still lands on their face instead of their shoulder.
Works with auto zoom
Who uses it, and for what
Podcast → Shorts
Two-hour episodes into centred vertical clips.
Webinar clips
Turn a landscape talk into LinkedIn-ready verticals.
Interviews
Keep whoever's speaking in the middle of the frame.
Back catalogue
Reframe years of 16:9 uploads into a Shorts feed.
Shorz speaks MCP
Shorz isn't a locked web app. Connect it to Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini and your assistant can drive it directly — one message instead of a panel full of clicks. You review before anything is published.
See how MCP automation works
You say
“Reframe this webinar recording to 9:16 with face tracking on, then cut the six best moments into clips.”
Shorz does
- 1Switch the project to 9:16
- 2Enable face tracking
- 3Find the six strongest moments
- 4Export each as a vertical clip
Every tool ships with the same promises
They're not separate products with separate bills. One app, one credit balance, one export that belongs to you.
- No subscription — prepaid credits that never expire
- No watermark on anything you export, ever
- Full commercial rights on what you create
- A desktop app for Windows and Mac — your files stay on your machine
- Auto Edit and Clipping: 4 free videos a week, no card
- Drivable from Claude, Cursor, Codex or Gemini over MCP
Face Tracking questions
It keeps the subject of the shot centred as the framing moves. For multi-speaker footage you can take over the framing manually on any clip where you want a specific composition.
16:9, 1:1 and 9:16 — the three native project ratios, covering YouTube, square feeds and TikTok / Reels / Shorts.
Yes. Automatic tracking is the default, and you can take manual control of the framing on any shot in seconds.
No. Face tracking renders locally, so it's free for everyone including on free Auto Edit and Clipping runs.
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Reframe landscape video to vertical
Face tracking keeps the speaker centred as they move, so a 16:9 upload becomes a Short that looks like it was shot that way. Costs no credits.
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