Reframe is a self-hosted web application that serves as a complete video toolkit for cropping, formatting, and enhancing videos for social media. It lets you easily convert horizontal (16:9) footage into vertical (9:16), square (1:1), or custom aspect ratios with an intuitive browser-based editor. Built with FastAPI, Vue 3, and FFmpeg (with GPU support), it runs entirely locally via Docker ensuring your media files never leave your NAS. Additional features include batch processing, auto-generated TikTok-style subtitles via Whisper AI, text/logo overlays, trimming, custom fonts, preset management, and a media library with transcripts. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Reframe on your UGREEN NAS using Docker and Portainer.

💡Note: This guide works perfectly with the latest Reframe v1.3.1 release.

💡Note: Check out my guide on how to Install Reframe on Your Synology NAS.

• STEP 1

Please Support My work by Making a Donation.

• STEP 2

Install Portainer using my step by step guide. If you already have Portainer installed on your UGREEN NAS, skip this STEP. Attention: Make sure you have installed the latest Portainer version.

• STEP 3

⚠️Mandatory: Add Read & Write Permissions to the Docker Folder.

• STEP 4

Go to Files and open the docker folder. Inside the docker folder, create one new folder and name it reframe. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful to enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

• STEP 5

Now create four new folders inside the reframe folder that you have previously created at STEP 3 and name them exports, fonts, models, uploads. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful to enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

• STEP 6

Log into Portainer using your username and password. On the left sidebar in Portainer, click on Home then Live connect. Follow the instructions in the image below.

On the left sidebar in Portainer, click on Stacks then + Add stack. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 7

In the Name field type in reframe. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Note: Copy Paste the code below in the Portainer Stacks Web editor.

services:
  reframe:
    image: ghcr.io/stefexec/reframe:latest
    container_name: Reframe
    user: 0:0
    healthcheck:
      test: timeout 10s bash -c ':> /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/8080' || exit 1
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 90s
    ports:
      - 4088:8080
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/reframe/uploads:/app/uploads:rw
      - /volume1/docker/reframe/exports:/app/exports:rw
      - /volume1/docker/reframe/fonts:/app/fonts:rw
      - /volume1/docker/reframe/models:/app/models:rw
    #devices:
      #- /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0 #Remove the # to enable AMD/Intel GPU support in Docker via VAAPI.
    restart: on-failure:5

• STEP 8

Scroll down on the page until you see a button named Deploy the stack. Click on it. Follow the instructions in the image below. The installation process can take up to a few minutes. It will depend on your Internet speed connection.

• STEP 9

If everything goes right, you will see the following message at the top right of your screen: “Success Stack successfully deployed“.

• STEP 10

🟢Please Support My work by Making a Donation. Almost 99,9% of the people that install something using my guides forget to support my work, or just ignore STEP 1. I’ve been very honest about this aspect of my work since the beginning: I don’t run any ADS, I don’t require subscriptions, paid or otherwise, I don’t collect IPs, emails, and I don’t have any referral links from Amazon or other merchants. I also don’t have any POP-UPs or COOKIES. I have repeatedly been told over the years how much I have contributed to the community. It’s something I love doing and have been honest about my passion since the beginning. But I also Need The Community to Support me Back to be able to continue doing this work.

• STEP 11

The installation process can take up to a few seconds/minutes. It will depend on your Internet speed connection. Now open your browser and type in http://ugreen-ip-address:4088 At the top right of the page, switch the theme to Dark. Click Upload video to upload your own video. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 12

Select your favorite format, then click Crop & Export. Follow the instructions in the image below.

• STEP 13

Wait until the video is processed.

• STEP 14

Click Download video to download the video that has been processed with your favorite format. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Enjoy Reframe on Your UGREEN NAS!

🆘TROUBLESHOOTING

Note: If you want to run the Reframe container over HTTPS, check out How to Run Docker Containers Over HTTPS on Your UGREEN NAS.

🆙Note/Update/Container: How to Update Your Docker Containers on UGREEN NAS Using Portainer.
🐳Note: How to Create Docker Shortcuts on Desktop.
🆕Note: How to Update Portainer to the latest version.
🆕Note: How to Clean Docker.