Portrait Box for Reels and TikTok
Introducing Portrait Box, a powerful new utility to convert landscape footage into pro-grade vertical video. Plus, new background update notifications.
✨ New Features
Portrait Box: Pro-Tool Vertical Transformation
Velocaption v2.10.0 introduces Portrait Box, a dedicated utility designed for high-performance video editing workflows. Located at Utils → Portrait Box, this tool allows you to instantly convert any landscape video into portrait orientation—perfect for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
Unlike generic converters, Portrait Box on macOS leverages Apple Silicon for near-instant encoding, ensuring your content creation pipeline remains fast and 100% offline.
- Dynamic Background Modes: Choose between solid colors, premium gradients (synced with your style library), or a high-end blurred version of the original footage.
- Precision Gutter Control: Manually add 0–30% padding around your subject, creating a sophisticated “Studio-Grade” frame.
- Industrial Corner Radius: Apply rounded corners (None to Extra Large) to your video frame, standardizing your brand’s aesthetic across all platforms.
- Hardware-Accelerated Quality: Toggle between High, Balanced, and Fast presets, mapping directly to
hevc_videotoolboxfor maximum efficiency. - High-Volume Batch Processing: Drag-and-drop entire folders from Finder to process dozens of clips in a single session.
- Seamless Integrations: Once converted, use the “Open in…” menu to jump straight into the Silence Remover or Captions Editor to finish your edit.
Native Update Notifications
Stay up to date with the latest Velocaption performance improvements. A new, non-intrusive notification system now alerts you to new versions in the bottom-right corner, allowing you to view the full changelog or jump straight to the updates page.
🔧 Internals & Performance
- Unified Orientation Logic: Extracted
getOrientationtosrc/lib/orientation.ts, centralizing video metric calculations across the entire app. - Shared Component Architecture: Migrated
BackgroundPickerandGradientSelectto shared components for use in future utilities. - Rust-Powered Processing: Built the
media::portrait_boxmodule in Rust with full unit test coverage for scaling, blurring, and mask generation. - AppleScript Finder Integration: The
reveal_files_in_findercommand now uses AppleScript to open a single Finder window with all processed files pre-selected.
Ready to speed up your vertical workflow? Get Velocaption today.