> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.tella.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Keep your face centered in the camera frame

> Turn on Keep face centered in Layout → Adjust and Tella moves the camera frame to your face in every layout, up and down as well as side to side.

Turn on **Keep face centered** in **Layout** → **Adjust** (press `A`) and Tella moves the camera frame to your face for you. Each layout opens with your face in the middle, and the frame moves to you when you move to a new spot in the shot. It works on camera recordings made in Tella.

[https://www.tella.tv/video/vid\_cmwfhxcup004t08jkbvn42y2f/embed?b=0\&title=0\&a=1\&loop=0\&t=0\&muted=0\&wt=0](https://www.tella.tv/video/vid_cmwfhxcup004t08jkbvn42y2f/embed?b=0\&title=0\&a=1\&loop=0\&t=0\&muted=0\&wt=0)

Use it when a layout cuts off part of you: the top of your head in a wide fullscreen camera layout, or your face at the edge of a small square or circle bubble. Tella moves the frame up, down, left or right, wherever your face is.

## Turn on Keep face centered

1. Open your video and select the clip.
2. Click **Layout**, then **Adjust**, or press `A`.
3. Under the **Camera crop** row, turn on **Keep face centered**.

Play the clip to check: in every layout, your face sits in the middle of the camera frame.

## Use it on every clip

**Keep face centered** applies to the selected clip. To copy it to the other clips, click **Apply camera to all clips** in **Layout** → **Adjust**. That also copies the clip's camera crop, focus point and mirror setting.

## Why don't I see Keep face centered?

The switch appears once Tella has found a face in that clip's camera recording. It doesn't show on clips without a camera recording, on uploaded videos, or on older recordings Tella hasn't looked for faces in. For those, set the framing yourself: open **Crop** → **Adjust camera** and drag the focus point, or crop the camera. See [Adjust your camera frame](https://www.tella.com/docs/help/editing/adjust-your-camera-frame.md).

## Go back to framing the camera by hand

Turn **Keep face centered** off. The camera goes back to the focus point and crop you set in the crop window.


## Related topics

- [Adjust your camera frame](https://www.tella.com/docs/help/editing/adjust-your-camera-frame.md)
- [Remove your camera background with Cut out](https://www.tella.com/docs/help/editing/cut-out-camera-background.md)
- [Camera faces](https://www.tella.com/docs/mcp-tools/camera-faces.md)
- [Create a pop-out camera effect](https://www.tella.com/docs/help/editing/create-a-pop-out-camera-effect.md)
- [Change your camera background](https://www.tella.com/docs/help/recording/blur-your-camera-background.md)


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