Move and restyle your camera

Place the camera

Shoyu for Mac records your camera on its own, so you can change it here after recording. Click Camera in the tool rail.

1. Under Layout, choose Floating, Docked left or Docked right.
2. Click Adjust on the video, or Adjust camera on the video.
3. For a floating camera, drag it to move it, or drag a corner to resize it.
4. For a docked camera, drag the inner edge to change its width, or drag the picture to show more of the left or right.
5. Click Save camera.

A docked camera sits in a panel beside the recording, and the recording shrinks to make room. Panel width and Framing in the panel do the same as dragging. Use Framing to keep your face in view when you sat to one side.

Change the camera partway through

1. Move the playhead to where the change starts.
2. Under Changes over time, click Add a change at the playhead.
3. Choose a Layout for the change, or turn off Show camera to hide the camera.
4. Under Transition, choose Smooth to glide into the change and back out, or Cut to switch at once.

Each change is a band on the Camera track of the filmstrip. Drag it to move it, or drag its ends to make it longer or shorter. You can also select part of the filmstrip and choose Camera. Click Whole recording to go back to the camera for the rest of the recording.

Restyle the camera

Click Reset to captured to put the camera back as it was when you recorded. Your changes over time stay.

If the camera cannot be changed

If the panel says No Dynamic camera, the camera is part of the recording’s picture, so Studio cannot move or restyle it. This is the case for recordings of an iPhone or iPad, recordings an agent starts with Automation, and recordings made before Shoyu could keep the camera separate.