Claude Opus 3.5 handles 16:9 to vertical video conversion surprisingly well. It intelligently crops scenes to portrait format while preserving the important visual elements in each frame.
The real win: if you had Opus generate overlays like subtitles or graphics on the original footage, it automatically repositions and optimizes those elements for the new aspect ratio. Saves a ton of manual adjustment work.
Basically treating it as a smart crop tool that understands scene composition + preserves your existing overlay logic. Pretty efficient workflow hack for repurposing landscape content to vertical platforms.
The real win: if you had Opus generate overlays like subtitles or graphics on the original footage, it automatically repositions and optimizes those elements for the new aspect ratio. Saves a ton of manual adjustment work.
Basically treating it as a smart crop tool that understands scene composition + preserves your existing overlay logic. Pretty efficient workflow hack for repurposing landscape content to vertical platforms.