Right properties panel

The right properties panel is the precision control center for selected elements. It changes depending on what you select on the timeline or canvas.

Open the right properties panel

1. Open a project.
2. Click a clip, text element, sticker, graphic, audio clip, effect, or mask.
3. Look at the right side of the editor.
4. The properties panel updates to show controls for that selection.

If nothing is selected, the panel may show project-level information or stay empty.

Transform controls

Transform controls affect where an element appears on the canvas.

Common controls:

Move an overlay precisely

1. Select the overlay on the canvas or timeline.
2. Open Transform in the properties panel.
3. Adjust Position X and Position Y.
4. Use small increments for final alignment.
5. Preview at the start and end of the clip.

Use canvas dragging for rough placement and numeric transform values for precision.

Blending controls

Blending controls determine how an element visually mixes with layers below it.

Common controls:

• Opacity — 100% is fully visible; lower values are transparent.
• Blend mode — changes how colors combine with the background.

Use blending for:

• Watermark-style overlays.
• Light leaks and texture layers.
• Screen, multiply, overlay, and similar compositing looks.

Audio controls

Audio controls appear for audio clips and video clips with audio.

Common controls:

• Volume — measured in decibels.
• Fade in — gradually increases volume at the start.
• Fade out — gradually decreases volume at the end.
• Muted — disables playback for that clip.

Balance a clip manually

1. Select the clip.
2. Open Audio.
3. Lower music under voiceover.
4. Add a short fade in and fade out.
5. Play the transition into and out of the clip.

Speed controls

Speed controls change how fast a clip plays.

Options include:

• Constant speed — plays the whole clip at one speed.
• Maintain pitch — keeps voices from sounding too high or too low.
• Variable speed ramp — supports speed changes over time through the retime curve system.

Make a clip faster

1. Select the clip.
2. Open Speed.
3. Increase speed above 1.0x.
4. Enable Maintain pitch if the clip has speech.
5. Watch for awkward motion or audio artifacts.

Effects tab

The Effects tab shows the selected element's effect stack.

Use it to:

• Add effects.
• Reorder effects.
• Adjust effect parameters.
• Remove effects.
• Keyframe effect values.

Effect order matters. For example, applying blur before grain looks different from grain before blur.

Masks tab

The Masks tab appears for maskable elements.

Use it to:

• Choose a mask type.
• Resize and reposition the mask.
• Feather edges.
• Invert the mask.
• Edit freeform mask points.

See Masks for the full workflow.

Tracking tab

The Tracking tab appears for eligible elements such as stickers, text, graphics, and images.

Use it to attach an overlay to movement in the video.

Basic workflow:

1. Select the overlay.
2. Open Tracking.
3. Choose a target area in the preview.
4. Run tracking.
5. Preview the result and adjust if needed.

See Tracking for details.

Text tab

Text elements have rich controls:

• Text content.
• Font family and size.
• Color or gradient fill.
• Alignment.
• Weight, style, decoration.
• Letter spacing and line height.
• Background box.
• Stroke and shadow.
• Text transform.
• Text animation.

See Text overlays and titles for a full tutorial.

Graphic tab

Graphic elements expose shape controls.

Depending on the shape, you can adjust:

• Fill color.
• Stroke color.
• Stroke width.
• Stroke alignment.
• Shape-specific parameters.

Shape parameters can be keyframed through the same parameter system used by other element controls.

Keyframing from the properties panel

Many properties can be animated.

1. Select an element.
2. Move the playhead to the first moment.
3. Click the diamond/keyframe icon next to a property.
4. Set the first value.
5. Move the playhead later.
6. Change the property value.
7. Preview the animation.
8. Use the graph editor for easing and curve adjustments.

Use keyframes for zooms, pans, opacity fades, effect ramps, and animated text.

Troubleshooting

See also

• Timeline editing
• Text overlays and titles
• Effects and color
• Masks