How to easily resize, crop, and move elements in a video

To resize, crop, or move an element, select any element in the preview window - a clip, text, or shape - and you’ll see a blue outline appear around it. This is your boundary box.

Resizing

To resize your element, click the white squares in the corner and drag outwards to make it bigger, or inwards to make it smaller.

Pro tip: Hold Shift while resizing, and you can stretch, squish, or warp it however you like.

Repositioning

To reposition your element, click and hold anywhere inside the boundary box of that element, then drag to move it around the preview window.

You’ll notice some yellow lines popping up. Those are snapping guides to help you align your elements to other layers or screen centers.

Pro tip: Hold Command while dragging, and your element will no longer be bound by the yellow snapping guides.

Cropping

To crop, grab one of the edges of the element and drag it inwards.

Pro tip: Hold Shift + Command while dragging to crop from both sides at the same time, creating a symmetrical crop.

Adjust generators

You can use the same tricks to stylize your text or shapes:

For example, customize your text by holding Shift to make it taller, shorter, more squashed, or elongated.

Stretch a square into a rectangle, or crop a circle into… well, a slightly less circular circle.

On-screen controls make everything faster and easier, giving you total creative freedom right in the preview window.