Crop a video or change its aspect ratio in PandaStudio
PandaStudio crops a video and switches its aspect ratio between 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1, and can auto-reframe on the speaker's face so a landscape recording becomes a clean vertical short.
Change the canvas shape for the platform you are posting to, and PandaStudio can recenter the frame on the speaker's face so nobody is cut off. Crop manually when you want a specific composition.
In the app
- 1On the timeline, switch the aspect ratio control to 16:9, 9:16, or 1:1.
- 2In the Video tab, use Recenter on face to auto-reframe, or Crop Video to set it by hand.
- 3Adjust the focal point so the subject stays framed through zooms.
Ask the AI
Open the AI chat in the editor and say any of these. The agent does the edits for you.
“Make this a vertical 9:16 video and keep me centered.”
“Crop this square for Instagram.”
CLI & MCP
Every capability is a verb, reachable from the terminal or from an MCP agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue, Claude Desktop).
project.set-aspect-ratio
pandastudio project.set-aspect-ratio --id=$ID --aspect=9:16
project.set-focal-point
pandastudio project.set-focal-point --id=$ID --x=0.5 --y=0.4
project.set-crop
pandastudio project.set-crop --id=$ID --x=0.1 --y=0 --width=0.8 --height=1