# Padding, rounded corners and shadow

Frame sets how the recording sits on the background: Flat, Soft, Deep or Lit in Simple, or padding, corners and shadow by hand in Pro.

Where to find it: Video editor › Pro › Scene › Frame

## In Simple

- **Flat**: Barely mounted: a thin margin, square-ish corners, no shadow.
- **Soft**: A comfortable margin and a soft drop shadow. New videos start here.
- **Deep**: Lifted off the background: a wide margin, round corners and a heavy shadow.
- **Lit**: Lit from the top left: the recording floats over a soft shadow cast down and to the right, and the sides facing the light stay clean.

## In Pro

Open **Scene › Frame**. Pick a **Frame style**, or **Custom** to set every value yourself.

- **Padding**: How much background shows around the recording. Zero is edge to edge.
- **Corner radius**: How round the recording’s corners are, in pixels at 1080p. It scales with the export.
- **Corner smoothing**: The shape of the corner rather than its size. Higher is a smoother, more continuous curve.
- **Shadow**: The shadow under the recording. It falls outward, so it never darkens the picture. **Lit from an angle** makes it the shadow of a light from one side: dense near the edge and soft further out, falling away from the light with the sides facing it clean. **Down** and **Across** set which way and how far it falls.

> **Note:** The frame needs a background to stand on. With the background set to None, Simple says so.

## Read next

- [Border and RGB glow](https://pointercam.com/help/border-and-glow)
- [Change the background](https://pointercam.com/help/background)
- [Put a browser or Mac window around the recording](https://pointercam.com/help/window-frame)

Source: https://pointercam.com/help/frame-and-shadow