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Smart Conform Step-by-Step Guide Now that we covered the importance of reformatting your content into different aspect ratios, how can one person possibly recreate so many videos? This is where Smart Conform comes in. Smart Conform uses AI technology to analyze your video clips and automatically adjust the framing for each clip based on the video content such as faces or other areas of visual interest. This is done to ensure that important elements of your project are not cut out in a very awkward way. Smart Conform is super helpful in repurposing projects created with standard widescreen or HD aspect ratios (16:9) to make versions in different aspect ratios for social media. Step 1: Open up Final Cut Pro to create a new project or open an existing project. In this example from Nick Harauz’s training session, we are using an existing project file that was created in 1920x1080 format. Step 2: Select your project, right click and look for “Duplicate Project As.” Step 3: When you duplicate your project, you’ll see a new dialog window appear. In this example, we are resizing a 1920x1080 video to a 1:1 square format. Please note the adjusted settings below: • Video: Square • Resolution: 1080x1080