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.
Content Offset
Section titled “Content Offset”Content Offset lives at the top of the Crop group because it affects how the source media sits inside the cropped frame.
Use Content Offset to move the source media inside the 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. For example, you can keep a picture-in-picture frame locked in the corner while sliding the footage inside that frame to show a better part of the shot.
Like other Crop controls, Content Offset has separate State A and State B values, so the source media can pan inside the crop during the Motion State transition.
Content Scale
Section titled “Content Scale”Content Scale sits directly under Content Offset and is its companion: where Content Offset moves the source media inside the frame, Content Scale zooms it.
Content Scale zooms the content around its own center, independent of the crop window and of the main Scale in Transform. The crop frame stays exactly where it is — only what you see inside it changes.
Use it to punch into the footage inside a picture-in-picture frame without resizing the frame, or to fill a crop whose subject sits too small in the source.
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.
Motion State exposes separate left, right, top, and bottom crop controls for State A and State B.
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.
Edge Feather
Section titled “Edge Feather”Edge Feather softens the edge of the crop matte.
Use it when a cropped frame should blend more gently into the background instead of using a hard cut edge. Edge Feather works with rounded corners and Corner Smoothness, so the softened edge follows the same rounded or squircle-style shape.
A value of 0 keeps the crop edge crisp.
If you want an outline or glow around the cropped frame, see Stroke Controls. For shadows behind the frame, see Shadow Controls.