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Layouts and facecam

Fit 16:9 gameplay into a 9:16 frame, and mark your webcam region.

Every clip is rendered at 1080x1920. The layout decides how your widescreen footage fills that frame. Layout tiles in the job form show a preview built from a real frame of your video, when the source is a local file.

The four layouts

LayoutLooks likeGood for
Blur (default)Gameplay zoomed in the middle, with a blurred, darkened copy behind itMost gameplay
CropA full-height 9:16 slice of the frameDriving and third-person
FacecamYour webcam on top, gameplay belowStreams with a camera
FitThe whole 16:9 frame with no zoomCutscenes and wide shots

Blur

Use Zoom to control how far to punch in, from 1.0 to 1.8x. The default is 1.35x.

Crop

Horizontal position chooses which slice you keep: 0 is the left edge, 50 the centre, 100 the right edge.

Facecam

Beta

The facecam layout is in beta. Check the preview tile and your first clip before rendering a whole batch.

The top panel shows your webcam, and the gameplay fills the rest. Two settings control it:

  • Horizontal position aims the gameplay crop in the lower panel.
  • Webcam panel height is the panel size in pixels out of 1920. The default is 640.

Mark the webcam region

The facecam layout needs to know where your camera sits in the source video. The region is four fractions of the frame: x, y, width and height.

Choose the Facecam layout.

Press Pick on frame. It shows a real frame, so it needs a local file or an upload. The button stays disabled until you have chosen one in Source, and it is not available for URLs yet.

Drag a box around your webcam. Use the slider to move to a frame where the camera is clearly visible.

Press Apply. The four numbers fill in.

Once set, the section shows a plain summary such as "Webcam: bottom right, 26% wide, 32% tall", with Change and Clear buttons. You can also open Enter numbers manually (advanced) and type the numbers. A 1920x1080 recording with the camera at x=1420, y=740, size 500x340 gives 0.74, 0.685, 0.26, 0.315.

The job form will not submit with the facecam layout until a region is set.

Captions sit higher on facecam clips so they stay clear of the webcam panel.

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