Crop and Shape Controls
Crop and shape controls let you reframe a clip inside Motion State.
Because crop values can be different for State A and State B, Motion State can animate the frame shape as part of the state change. See State-based Animation for how State A and State B work together.
Crop trims the visible edges of the clip.
Use it to reframe footage, create picture-in-picture layouts, or isolate part of a clip inside a designed frame.
For placement, scale, rotation, opacity, and Content Offset, see Transform Controls.
Symmetrical Crop
Section titled “Symmetrical Crop”Symmetrical Crop keeps opposite sides matched, which is helpful when creating centered frames quickly.
Corner Radius
Section titled “Corner Radius”Corner Radius rounds the crop frame corners.
Corner Smoothness
Section titled “Corner Smoothness”Corner Smoothness controls how soft, continuous, and squircle-like the rounded corners feel.
At lower values, the frame behaves more like a standard rounded rectangle. At higher values, the shape becomes more like a smooth squircle.
Use Corner Smoothness when you want a more modern frame shape than a basic hard-radius rectangle.
Content Offset
Section titled “Content Offset”When a clip is cropped, use Content Offset to move the source media inside the cropped frame without moving the frame itself.
This is useful when the frame is in the right place, but the visible part of the footage needs to be recomposed.
If you want an outline or glow around the cropped frame, see Stroke Controls.