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The crop tool allows you to remove unwanted areas from your videos and images, focusing attention on the most important parts of your content. This is especially useful for removing browser tab bars, OS taskbars, or any other distracting parts of a screen recording.

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Cropping Your Video

Follow these steps to crop unwanted areas from your video:
1

Select the video clip

Start by clicking anywhere on the video clip you want to crop. The toolbar options will change to show video-specific controls.
2

Open the Crop tool

Navigate to the Crop button in the toolbar and click on it.
3

Adjust the crop area

A selection box appears over your video. Drag the edges or corners to resize the crop area, or drag the center to reposition it. The area outside the selection will be removed from the final output.
4

Choose an aspect ratio (optional)

Use the aspect ratio dropdown to constrain the crop to a specific ratio:
  • Free — drag freely in any direction
  • 16:9 — standard widescreen
  • 4:3 — classic monitor ratio
  • 1:1 — square, great for social media
  • 3:4 / 9:16 — portrait orientations
When a fixed ratio is selected, only the corner handles are available and the proportions stay locked.
5

Reset or save

Changed your mind? Click Reset crop to go back to the full, uncropped frame.Once you’re happy with the crop, click Save Changes.

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Cropping an Image Element

Image elements on your slides can be cropped the same way:
  1. Click the image element on the canvas to select it.
  2. Click Crop in the image toolbar — or right-click the image and choose Crop from the context menu.
  3. Adjust the crop area, pick an aspect ratio if needed, and click Done.
When you crop a video clip that contains overlaid elements (text, shapes, etc.), those elements are automatically repositioned to stay within the new crop boundaries. Any element fully outside the crop area is removed.

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Common Use Cases

ScenarioSuggested crop
Remove browser tab bar from a screen recordingDrag the top edge down to hide the tab bar
Remove OS taskbar / dockDrag the bottom edge up
Focus on a specific section of the screenDrag all four sides inward
Reformat a landscape recording for mobileSelect the 9:16 aspect ratio
Create a square clip for social mediaSelect the 1:1 aspect ratio