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Pop-out cuts you out of your camera recording and places you in front of a smaller camera frame. Use it to add depth while keeping your original camera background or replacing it with a colour. The video below starts at the Pop-out walkthrough (1:41): turning it on, adjusting the pop-out amount and outline, and switching the frame background to a colour. The earlier part covers Cut out, and 3:09 onward covers overlays behind the presenter.

Turn on Pop-out

  1. Open your video and click Layout.
  2. Choose a layout that shows your camera inside a frame, such as Camera Bubble or a centered camera-only layout.
  3. Turn on Pop-out in the layout controls.
You can also open Customize layout and turn on Pop-out under Camera style. The effect applies to the current base layout or layout section.
Pop-out needs a clip with a camera recording and a layout that frames it. It is unavailable for screen-only and full-frame camera layouts.

Customize the frame

Open Customize layout and use the Pop-out settings:
  • Background: choose Original to keep your camera recording inside the frame, or Colour to use a solid fill.
  • Colour: choose the frame colour when Background is set to Colour.
  • Pop-out amount: control how far the frame drops behind you.
  • Outline: adjust the frame outline width. Increase it above 0% to reveal Outline colour.
  • Outline colour: choose the colour of the frame outline.
Use Camera style to switch the frame between Circle, Square, Landscape, and Portrait. Pop-out keeps the selected shape as you adjust the other settings. The frame’s corners follow the Shape you chose in the Style tool (Square, Round, or Squircle), so a Square camera style can give you a sharp, rounded, or squircle frame to match your other layers. See Borders.
Add a shadow from the Style tool to make the frame stand out from the canvas. The shadow follows the Pop-out frame’s shape.

Use Pop-out with other layouts

Pop-out stays enabled when you switch between compatible framed-camera layouts. A Cut-out layout removes the frame completely, so choosing it turns Pop-out off. If you turn on Pop-out while using Cut-out, Tella changes the camera to a square frame first. To reuse the result in other videos, save the layout to Favorites from Customize layout. See Custom layouts for the complete workflow.
Last modified on September 21, 2026