Good question — Silviu’s project settings advice covers the technical setup. A few workflow habits that make vertical editing much less painful:

1. Frame for 9:16 from the start. If you’re repurposing horizontal footage, don’t just crop the center — reposition each shot so faces and the main action stay inside the vertical safe area. Most NLE… Read more

Hi Adam – a couple of things to check on the missing mask outline in CapCut 8 desktop:

– Make sure the V2 clip is genuinely selected (white border in the timeline) – the mask outline only renders for the selected clip in the preview. If the program monitor is zoomed or the clip sits off-canvas, the line can be out of view.

– Try deselecting… Read more

Good question, and your real-world test (seeing little difference) is actually pointing at the right answer. Here’s the breakdown: **Every platform re-encodes everything you upload.** There is no way to bypass compression, so the “upload 1080p so they don’t compress it” theory is a myth. The real question is: which upload gets you the *better*… Read more