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Fit, fill or crop the recording

Choose how the recording fills the video’s shape: Fit shows all of it, Fill crops to the shape, Follow fills and pans with your pointer. Crop trims what the video keeps.

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Where to find it
  1. Video editor
  2. Pro
  3. Scene
  4. Placement
Fit
Shows the whole recording, with background around it where the shapes differ.
Fill
Crops the recording to the video’s shape, so no background shows.
Follow
Fills the frame and pans with your pointer, so a demo that walks across a wide screen stays in shot. Useful for a 9:16 video from a wide screen.

Crop the shared screen#

  1. 1Open Scene › Placement and choose Crop the shared screen, or select the recording and press C.
  2. 2Drag the box on the preview to choose what the video keeps.
  3. 3Press Done cropping.

To move or resize the recording in the frame, drag it on the preview, or pull a corner to scale it. Reset position and Reset crop undo either.

Read next

Make a vertical or square videoChange the video’s shape to 9:16 for Shorts and Reels, 1:1 for feeds, or any of eight shapes. The recording, camera and captions are laid out again for it.Click anything on the preview to change itClick your camera, the recording, the captions, your logo or a callout on the preview. Its settings open in the column, and you can drag it into place.Put a browser or Mac window around the recordingDraw a clean window around your take: a browser with an address bar that follows the pages you visited, or a macOS or Windows title bar.

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