Smart Reframe on the Cut page

Occasionally, when you are shooting your footage quickly, you don’t always get the opportunity to frame your shot how you want. One of the advantages of shooting in 6K or even 4K is that you can zoom in on your footage to reframe your shot closer for a 1080p film with no loss of quality. However, this is usually a manually intensive job where, on the Cut page, you would use the Transform controls under the Tools palette to reframe the clip.

If you need a quick turnaround for your video and you have the Studio version of Resolve, you can use the Smart Reframe tool, which uses Resolve’s Neural Engine to recognize the subject of your video and reframe the video to create a shot centered around your subject.

This is particularly useful if you change the aspect ratio of your video from the horizontal 16:9 to the vertical 9:16 or square 1:1 aspect ratios often needed to display videos on social media platforms, such as Facebook or Instagram...