{
 "slug": "face-reframe",
 "name": "Reframe around the face",
 "category": "effect",
 "group": "Zooms and reframes",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The speaker stays where the eye expects, whatever the aspect ratio.",
 "use_when": "A wide take cut to vertical; any multi-format delivery.",
 "phrase": "crop the wide take to 9:16 around the tracked face, the face centre at 38 percent of the height",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Measured face positions in the references: 18 percent of the height on a stacked board, 23 percent in a hook over a lower panel, about 48 to 50 percent in full-frame selfie and locked shots.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair measurements of four published shorts, Oct 2026"
  },
  {
   "text": "Without face detection the crop is centred: look at three preview frames for a whole head.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on editing"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "punch-in",
  "ratio-9-16",
  "stacked-speaker-board"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "measured",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair field notes on editing"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/effect/face-reframe",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/effect/face-reframe.md",
 "prompts": {
  "chat": "Give me an edit brief: where it goes on the timeline, the exact settings, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is reframe around the face: the speaker stays where the eye expects, whatever the aspect ratio. How it works: crop the wide take to 9:16 around the tracked face, the face centre at 38 percent of the height. It is right for: a wide take cut to vertical; any multi-format delivery. Measured face positions in the references: 18 percent of the height on a stacked board, 23 percent in a hook over a lower panel, about 48 to 50 percent in full-frame selfie and locked shots. Without face detection the crop is centred: look at three preview frames for a whole head. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}