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# Crop one layout without changing the rest of the clip

> In the crop window, choose This layout only before saving to crop the screen recording in one layout while the clip's other layouts keep their framing.

Yes, you can crop one layout on its own. Open the crop window on that layout, choose **This layout only** from the dropdown next to the save button, and save. The other layouts in the clip keep their own crop, so you don't need to split the recording into separate clips.

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Use it to show a different part of the same screen recording at different points in a clip: the whole window while you introduce a page, then a tight crop on one panel while you talk about it.

## Crop a single layout

1. **Select the layout you want to crop.** Click its card in the layout timeline, or move the playhead into it. If that part of the clip doesn't have its own layout yet, drag across the timeline and pick a preset for that range first. See [Choose a layout](https://www.tella.com/docs/help/editing/use-layouts.md).
2. **Open the crop window.** Click **Crop** in the toolbar below the video, then choose **Adjust screen**. You can also open **Layout** → **Adjust** (press `A`) and click the thumbnail beside **Screen crop**.
3. **Drag the purple frame** around the part of the recording you want to show.
4. **Choose This layout only** from the dropdown next to the save button. The button changes to **Crop 1 layout**, and the timeline under the preview covers only that layout.
5. **Click Crop 1 layout.**

Play across the end of the layout to check: the cropped layout shows only the part you picked, and the next layout goes back to the clip's framing.

## What the other crop choices do

The dropdown has three choices:

* **This layout only** crops the layout you opened the crop window on. Nothing else changes.
* **All layouts in this clip** (the default) crops every layout in the clip and replaces any layout you cropped on its own there.
* **All layouts in all clips** crops every layout in the video and replaces individual layout crops in those clips.

Because the default is **All layouts in this clip**, check the dropdown every time you save a crop you meant for one layout.

## Crop your camera in one layout

The same choice works for your camera. Click **Crop**, choose **Adjust camera**, frame it, pick **This layout only**, and click **Save 1 layout**. If you move the camera's focus point, that focus point also applies to that layout only.

## Undo a single-layout crop

Press **⌘ + Z** (**Ctrl + Z** on Windows) right after saving. Later on, open the crop window on that layout, click **Reset** to show the whole recording, choose **This layout only**, and save. To give every layout the same crop again, save a crop with **All layouts in this clip**.

For everything else in the crop window, such as aspect ratio presets, **Auto Crop**, and copying a crop to another clip, see [Crop screen recordings](https://www.tella.com/docs/help/editing/crop-screen-recordings.md).


## Related topics

- [Crop screen recordings](https://www.tella.com/docs/help/editing/crop-screen-recordings.md)
- [Clips](https://www.tella.com/docs/mcp-tools/clips.md)
- [Adjust your camera frame](https://www.tella.com/docs/help/editing/adjust-your-camera-frame.md)
- [Choose a layout](https://www.tella.com/docs/help/editing/use-layouts.md)
- [Layouts](https://www.tella.com/docs/mcp-tools/layouts.md)


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