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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.
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.
  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.
Last modified on November 13, 2026