Prepare — the last two steps before you publish

Open Prepare →

Two things stand between a finished file and a published one: the wrong shape, and not enough resolution. Prepare does exactly those two jobs — Change the shape and Make it bigger — on anything in your asset library. Every run is saved as a new file; the original is never touched.

Before you start: Prepare works on files that are already in your asset library, and refuses one picked from disk without the save box ticked. Put it there first: generate it in Creator, produce it in the free Files Editor, or choose it in the picker with Also save to my asset library ticked.

What Prepare makes

One new asset-library file per run, named after the original — "my clip — 9:16" for a reshape, "my clip — upscaled" for an enlargement. There is no in-place edit and no overwrite, which is why running the same job twice is safe.

Reshaping is ffmpeg and arithmetic; enlarging uses whatever upscaling model the server has. If none is installed, the page says so and the reshape half keeps working.

Walkthrough: one file, one job

1

Pick the job

Change the shape or Make it bigger. One at a time — a run in flight refuses a second.

2

Choose a file

Images and videos, from your asset library. A file chosen from your computer without Also save to my asset library ticked has no id and is refused, because the job runs on the server against that id.

3

For a reshape: choose the new shape

Widescreen 16:9, anamorphic scope, theatrical flat, portrait 4:5, vertical 9:16 or square.

4

Decide what happens to the pixels that do not fit

Fill the frame cuts the edges away — what "make this vertical" usually means. Keep everything letterboxes and loses nothing. Blurred surround fills the screen with a blurred enlargement of the same shot and sits the whole picture on top.

5

Leave the subject pass on

Ticked, the crop follows what the shot is about instead of the middle of the frame. It pulls the window towards the subject rather than snapping to it, so a centred composition stays centred.

6

For an enlargement: choose how much bigger

2×, 4×, or Exact size with a longest side in pixels. Video offers only the factors — its output size is whatever the model produces. Read the credit estimate on the note line before you run.

7

Press Run

The result appears inline and is already in your asset library. Recent jobs lists what this tab has made — it is not a saved history, so the list resets when you reload, though the files do not.

Options

  • Shapes — 16:9, 2.39:1, 1.85:1, 4:5, 9:16, 1:1.
  • Fit — fill the frame (crop), keep everything (pad), blurred surround.
  • Subject pass — on by default; off, or when nothing is found, gives a centred crop.
  • How much bigger — 2×, 4×, or an exact longest side. Images only for the exact size.
  • Sound — a reshaped video keeps its original audio track untouched.

Limits

  • Images and videos only. Anything else is refused with a message saying so.
  • Longest side 64 to 16,000 pixels; scale factors from 1 to 8.
  • A local upscale is capped near 96 megapixels; a request over the target is clamped rather than refused, and the result is never resampled above what the model actually produced.
  • A video reshape gets 15 minutes of processing before it gives up.
  • The asset library's own upload cap is 100 MB.
  • No batch: one file, one job. No progress bar, no before-and-after view, and no manual crop box — the crop window is decided on the server.

What it costs

Prepare is a Max app, and unlike most of Grafy both of its jobs cost credits — there is no free half.

  • Reshaping is priced by the output size, at three credits a megapixel with a floor of two and a ceiling of sixty.
  • Enlarging on a hosted model is priced per output megapixel for images and per second for video, and the ledger row names the model, the factor and the sizes.
  • Enlarging on a local model is the same three-credits-a-megapixel rule. Local is not free.

One asymmetry worth knowing: the page quotes a price for an enlargement before you run it, and does not quote one for a reshape. A reshape is between two and sixty credits depending on the output size.

Frequently asked questions

It says my file has to be in the asset library. Why?

Because the job runs on the server against an asset id, not against bytes from your browser. Choose the file again in the picker with Also save to my asset library ticked, and it will have one.

Will reshaping cut my subject out of frame?

Not if the subject pass is on: the crop window is pulled towards what the shot is about instead of the centre. If you cannot afford to lose anything at all, choose Keep everything or Blurred surround instead of Fill the frame.

Does it overwrite my original?

Never. Every run files a new asset named after the original, which is also why you can try three shapes and keep the one you like.

Why can't I set an exact size for a video?

Video is enlarged by a whole-number factor and the output size is whatever the model produces, so an exact pixel target would be a promise the pipeline cannot keep. The exact-size control is hidden rather than ignored.

Where did my Recent jobs list go?

It only ever described this browser tab. The files themselves are permanent — they are in your asset library — but the list is not saved and resets on reload.

The Make it bigger panel says upscaling is not switched on.

That deployment has no upscaling model installed and no hosted upscaler configured. Reshaping still works, because it needs only ffmpeg.