Tips and tricks
The secret is pairing the Keyframe tool with the right Default keyframe transition before you tap. Cropper keeps that selection — new pins inherit Movie, Sport, or Smooth exactly as you set them.
Wide court coverage is great for broadcast — terrible for vertical. Scrub to the serve, set Default keyframe transition → Sport, switch to Keyframe, then tap where the player (or ball) should live in the 9:16 frame. Sport holds, then fast-pans into the next pin — perfect when the subject jumps faster than a handheld op can pan. Slow playback to nail the contact point.
Cars, drones, stunts, fight beats, anything that exits frame before a live operator can catch it — Keyframe + Sport is your “virtual steadicam.” Lay pins ahead of the motion path so the crop anticipates the subject instead of lagging behind. After the path is down, switch to Hand and nudge individual pins if one overshoots.
Set Movie as the default, then tap Keyframe on each face as they talk. Movie holds the previous crop and cuts clean at the pin — classic multi-cam energy from a single wide. For two hosts, flip Keyframe view → Dual and frame Top / Bottom subjects separately.
Product demos, explainers, walkthroughs: Smooth eases between pins so the crop drifts like a slow push-in. Two or three well-placed pins beat fifty noisy ones.
Park the playhead where the person is clear, choose Track, tap them once. On-device tracking lays the path; switch to Hand afterward to fix any drift at edges.
Hold → hard cut. Podcasts, punch-ins, comic timing.
Hold → fast pan in. Tennis, football, chase scenes, anything too quick for a live pan.
Gradual glide. Tutorials, vlogs, slow reveals.
Tap a keyframe in the list to change its transition or delete it without resetting the whole path.