FeaturesLecture formats

FORMATS

Any lecture, made for 16:9 or 9:16 — never cropped.

The Video Frame switch on the script page decides the shape of the whole video before anything is made. Pick Vertical and every image, clip and animation is authored at 9:16, slide-style scenes sit on a stage with the title above and the captions below, and everything stays inside the platforms’ safe zones. Already made it wide? The Studio can re-shape the timeline to vertical, and the export panel makes a vertical copy of any render.

16:99:16Safe zonesStudio canvas switch

What it does

The detail that makes it work.

Authored, not cropped

Pictures are drawn, fetched and animated for the tall frame from the start, so nothing important is cut off the sides.

Every lecture type

Whiteboard, paper cutout, stickman, cinematic, MotionCraft, MathMotion and every subject lecture can be made vertical.

Switch in the Studio too

Export → Canvas turns a landscape timeline into a vertical one, and back, as one undoable edit.

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