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Cut out removes the background from your camera recording or uploaded footage of a person so only you appear on the canvas, over your background or screen recording, with no frame. Pick the Cut out layout under Layout, or choose Cut-out as the camera style in Customize layout. Watch Cut out applied to a screen-and-camera layout, a camera-only layout, and the full Cut out preset. The Pop-out section starts at 1:41.

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Apply a Cut out layout

  1. Open a video that contains a camera recording or uploaded footage of a person.
  2. Click Layout in the editor sidebar.
  3. Find Cut out and select the layout tile.
  4. If your clip contains both a screen and camera, choose which side of the screen to place yourself on. In a portrait or square video, choose whether to appear above or below the screen.
Tella may show Preparing cut-out while it processes your footage. You can keep editing while it prepares the result, but Download stays unavailable until processing finishes.

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Turn Cut-out on or off while customizing a layout

You can add or remove the Cut-out camera style without changing the rest of a layout:
  1. Open Layout and select Customize layout.
  2. Find the Cut-out control for the camera. On a fullscreen camera layout it is a toggle; on other camera layouts, choose Cut-out under Camera style (pick another shape, such as Circle, to turn it off).
  3. Turn Cut-out on to remove the camera background, or off to restore the camera frame.
You can continue to move and resize yourself on the canvas after applying Cut-out.
Cut-out works best when you are clearly visible and separated from your background.

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Cut out a person in an uploaded video

For uploaded footage, the Cut out preset fills the canvas. To remove the background while keeping a centered or resized layout instead:
  1. Select the uploaded clip and open Layout.
  2. Open Customize layout.
  3. In the Screen section, turn on Cut-out.
The toggle appears when the clip’s own uploaded footage is the source in the Screen slot. It keeps your current layout and applies to the current layout section. For a centered portrait upload, the frame widens while keeping its height, so the person stays the same size. Cut out is not available for screen-only recordings. Cut-out presets saved from uploaded clips also stay hidden in Favorites when you select a screen-only recording.
Last modified on October 7, 2026