Clip properties

Each clip on the timeline has a properties panel that shows its settings. The panel’s controls depend on the type of clip. In any properties panel, you can:

select the pin icon, or press ⌘P, to pin the panel
select ×, or press Esc, to close it

Video properties

Control	What it does
Position (X and Y)	Sets where the clip sits in the frame.
Size (W and H)	Sets the clip’s width and height.
Rotate	Sets the clip’s rotation, in degrees. Select Reset to return to the default.
Video Settings	A collapsible section. Expand it to see its options.
Style	A collapsible section. Expand it to see its options.
Volume	Sets how loud the clip’s audio is, as a percentage.
Opacity	Sets how see-through the clip is, as a percentage.
Duration	Shows how long the clip is.
Effect	Adds a camera-style effect to the clip. The section header shows the current effect. See Effects.
Animation	Sets how the clip enters and exits. The section header shows the current enter and exit animations. See Animation.

The values shown in the screenshot are examples. Your clip’s values will differ.

Effects

Expand Effect in the Video properties panel to add and adjust an effect.

Not every option applies to every effect or every video. The panel shows the options that are available for the effect you choose.

Choose an effect The effect types include:

None
Zoom
Pan
Ken Burns

For talking-head footage, there are also these options:

Punch In
Punch Out
Jump Cut
Drift

Shape the effect

Control	What it does
Mode and Preset	Choose how the effect behaves, or start from a preset.
Direction	Choose In or Out.
Intensity	Set how strong the effect is, or choose one of the preset intensity levels.

Set the focal point The focal point, or origin, is the part of the frame that the effect centers on.

Focus preview: drag in the preview to set the zoom focal point.
Anchor to Face and Upper Third: options for positioning the focal point.
Clip to Frame: an option that controls how the effect relates to the edges of the frame.

Set the timing

Control	What it does
Effect Speed	Sets how fast the effect plays.
Starts and Ends	Set when the effect starts and ends.
Add segment	Adds another segment to the effect.
Easing	Sets how the effect speeds up and slows down.

Animation

Expand Animation in the Video properties panel to set how the clip appears and disappears.

An Enter animation plays when the clip appears.
An Exit animation plays when the clip ends.

You set them separately. For each one, choose a preset and set its duration. To have no animation, choose None.

Captions properties

The Captions properties panel has two tabs:

Caption: shows All captions, a Romanize button and the caption at the playhead’s current position.
Styles: options for how your captions look.

If you see No caption at current position, there’s simply no caption at that point in your video. It isn’t an error. Move the playhead to a point that has a caption to see it.

Text properties

Section	What you can change
Position, Size and Rotate	Where the text sits in the frame, its width and height, and its rotation. Select Reset to return to the default rotation.
Text Content	The words in the text element. The character count appears below the box.
Typography	The Font, Size, Weight, Spacing and line Height.
Style buttons	Bold, italic and underline.
Alignment buttons	Left, center or right alignment.
Transform	A text transform option, for example None.
Text and BG	The text color and the background color.

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