Turn landscape photos into vertical video
Property photos are shot wide, reels are watched tall. Photo optimization rebuilds each room for 9:16 instead of cropping it, and you approve every shot.
Set the video to 9:16
Photo optimization only appears on portrait video, because it exists to solve a portrait problem. In the format step, choose 9:16. A 16:9 version for your website costs nothing extra, so there is no reason to choose between them.
Why not simply crop?
A wide room cropped to 9:16 loses half the space, and stretched to fit it bends the doorframes. Optimization does neither. It reinterprets the room as if the photographer had stood in the same spot holding the camera upright.
Run the optimization
In the script step, Nanopixo lists the photos it found in the video, and tells you when two scenes share the same one. Click Optimize and it works through them in a single pass. Give it a moment, it is rebuilding each image rather than resizing it.
Compare with the original
Every optimized photo can be held up against the one you started with. Use it on the shots that carry the listing, the hero exterior and the main living space, and check that the ceiling and floor were extended in a way that still reads as the same room.
Redo a single photo
If one image did not land, run the optimization again on that photo alone. Repeat it as often as you like, on one photo or several, until you are happy. The rest of the video is untouched.
A second pass is normal.
Rooms with a strong pattern, a staircase or a mirrored wall for example, sometimes need one more try before the reinterpretation reads cleanly.
Keep a scene as a photo instead of video
Each scene has a switch that stops its photo being turned into motion. The scene gets a slow photo zoom instead. It is the quickest fix when a re-render invents something odd in the corner of a room, and it suits scenes where the eye should stay still, a floor plan or a detail shot.
A photo that is not earning its place can also be removed here. A shorter video that holds attention beats a complete one that loses it.
Re-rendering costs nothing.
Changes and re-renders on the same project are free, so if a photo still bothers you after watching it back, optimize it again and render once more.