Cut out removes the background from your camera recording so only you appear on the canvas, over your background or screen recording, with no camera 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.
Apply a Cut out layout
- Open a video that contains a camera recording.
- Click Layout in the editor sidebar.
- Find Cut out and select the layout tile.
- 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 camera recording. You can keep editing while it prepares the result, but Download stays unavailable until processing finishes.
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:
- Open Layout and select Customize layout.
- 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).
- 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.
Last modified on September 28, 2026
