Framing a source

Every picture input has its own framing — size, position, crop and rotation — independent of the source itself and of every other input. Open an input’s settings and go to its Picture tab.

Move and resize

Drag the blue frame on the canvas to move the picture, or a corner to resize it. Every value also has a slider and a field, for typing an exact number. Width and Height run from 5% to 200% of the canvas; a lock between the two keeps the picture’s proportions as you resize, on by default. X and Y position the picture’s centre, and Rotation turns it up to 180° either way. Reset to Full Canvas puts everything back in one press.

The canvas itself is drawn smaller than the editor’s own drawing area — which is 40% larger than the canvas overall — so a picture sized up to 200% still shows its whole frame and all four resize handles without leaving the editor.

Crop

Top, Left, Right and Bottom trim the source’s own edges before it is sized, positioned and rotated — useful for cutting down a letterboxed source, or removing a camera’s own on-screen display.

When it takes effect

Colour correction applies live, as fast as you move a slider. Framing does not: the editor’s own preview follows your drag as you make it, but if that input is on Program, the change only reaches air the moment you let go of the slider or the drag. Typing a number into a field commits immediately.

Looping between two framings

Turn on Animate, above the sliders, and the picture eases back and forth between a start framing and an end framing, forever, while it plays. Set Duration for one leg of the loop, from a tenth of a second to ten minutes. Move the picture to where you want one end and press the loop’s S icon to set the start; move it again and press E for the end. Each stays lit once set, however far the sliders move afterward. A trash icon appears once a loop is configured, to remove it.

A source’s own loop only actually plays while two things are both on: its own Animate switch, and a show-wide Animations button beside AutoDirector — the one place that stops every source’s loop at once, without hunting each one down. That button lights up once any source’s loop is both configured and switched on; click it to turn all of them off in one press. Starting or stopping one source’s loop, or every loop at once, can also go on a hotkey or Stream Deck button.

Composite layers are framed the same way, from their own Size & Position… button, but do not loop — the loop belongs to an input itself, not to how it is placed inside a Composite.

Next

Colour correction and grading, the other half of what an input’s card opens, and Composite inputs for framing several sources into one.