Crop the recording

Crop

1. Click the aspect ratio menu in the toolbar and choose Crop recording…. It’s also under Background › Frame, and in the command menu.
2. Drag a corner of the white box to resize it, or drag inside the box to move it.
3. Check the size underneath, in pixels, and click Apply.

The Crop recording window shows the frame at the playhead, so move the playhead to a moment that shows what you want to keep. Reset brings back the whole recording, and Cancel closes without changes.

What to know

• It’s for the whole video: the crop applies from start to end. Open Crop recording… again to change it, or press ⌘Z to undo it.
• Nothing is lost: the edges are only hidden. Reset brings them back at any time.
• Crop is not the shape: cropping changes what part of the recording you see. To make the video square or vertical, change the aspect ratio.

Tip: if you know in advance which part matters, record only that part. See Record an area.