Problem
A vertical crop is created from a horizontal master before the final graphics pass, so lower-thirds land outside the later-defined 9:16 safe area.
Solution
Root Cause / Diagnostic:
Generating a vertical reframe downstream of graphic burns or applying horizontal title templates without safe area adaptation causes lower-thirds and identifiers to bleed outside the 9:16 canvas. Because horizontal 16:9 graphics are positioned along wide lower-third margins, simple center-cropping truncates text boundaries or pushes lower elements underneath vertical UI overlays. Rendering graphics before establishing aspect-ratio-specific framing breaks graphics inheritance.
Actionable Step-by-Step Fix:
1. Separate Graphic Layers from Master Footage: Keep graphics, lower-thirds, and titles on separate unflattened timeline tracks above the reframed camera media.
2. Configure 9:16 Social Safe Margins: Enable title safe guides set to mobile platform specifications (leaving a 20% bottom buffer for platform captions/metadata and 15% side margins).
3. Scale and Re-Center Graphic Templates: Reposition lower-thirds into the vertical safe zone (Y-axis 65–75% height) and scale font size down to fit within a 720px horizontal width envelope.
Pro Creator Tip:
Create dynamic Mogrt (Motion Graphics) templates with responsive design rules pinned to 9:16 bounding boxes so on-screen graphics automatically reposition based on timeline aspect ratio.
Generating a vertical reframe downstream of graphic burns or applying horizontal title templates without safe area adaptation causes lower-thirds and identifiers to bleed outside the 9:16 canvas. Because horizontal 16:9 graphics are positioned along wide lower-third margins, simple center-cropping truncates text boundaries or pushes lower elements underneath vertical UI overlays. Rendering graphics before establishing aspect-ratio-specific framing breaks graphics inheritance.
Actionable Step-by-Step Fix:
1. Separate Graphic Layers from Master Footage: Keep graphics, lower-thirds, and titles on separate unflattened timeline tracks above the reframed camera media.
2. Configure 9:16 Social Safe Margins: Enable title safe guides set to mobile platform specifications (leaving a 20% bottom buffer for platform captions/metadata and 15% side margins).
3. Scale and Re-Center Graphic Templates: Reposition lower-thirds into the vertical safe zone (Y-axis 65–75% height) and scale font size down to fit within a 720px horizontal width envelope.
Pro Creator Tip:
Create dynamic Mogrt (Motion Graphics) templates with responsive design rules pinned to 9:16 bounding boxes so on-screen graphics automatically reposition based on timeline aspect ratio.