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# Remove your camera background with Cut out

> Cut out removes your camera background so only you appear on the canvas, with no camera frame. Pick the Cut out layout under Layout, or set Camera style to Cut-out in Customize layout. It needs a clip with a camera recording.

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.

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## Apply a Cut out layout

1. Open a video that contains a camera recording.
2. Click **Layout** in the editor sidebar.
3. Find **Cut out** and select the layout tile.
4. 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:

1. Open **Layout** and select **Customize layout**.
2. 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).
3. 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.

<Tip>Cut-out works best when you are clearly visible and separated from your background.</Tip>

## Related

* [Create a pop-out camera effect](/docs/help/editing/create-a-pop-out-camera-effect): keep a camera frame and rise out of it. Choosing Cut out turns Pop-out off, because there is no frame to pop out of.
* [Put overlays behind the presenter](/docs/help/editing/overlays-behind-the-presenter): place text, media, or stickers behind you.


## Related topics

- [Can I blur my camera background after recording?](/docs/help/faq/blur-camera-background-after-recording.md)
- [Create a pop-out camera effect](/docs/help/editing/create-a-pop-out-camera-effect.md)
- [Save custom layouts](/docs/help/editing/custom-layouts.md)
- [Put overlays behind the presenter](/docs/help/editing/overlays-behind-the-presenter.md)
- [Choose a layout](/docs/help/editing/use-layouts.md)


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