# Reframe a clip

Change a clip's format, choose how each scene is framed, from one person to a screen with the speaker, and move the frame over the original video.

- Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/reframe-a-clip
- By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read
- Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs)

Snipri frames each scene of a clip for a vertical screen when it makes the clip, following the speaker or showing the screen they share. The toolbar over the video changes that framing, scene by scene or for the whole clip, from the original video.

## Change the format

The **Clip format** menu sits at the start of the toolbar over the video.

The clip renders again in the format you pick when you save: Portrait 9:16 at 1080 × 1920 pixels, Square 1:1 at 1080 × 1080 or Landscape 16:9 at 1920 × 1080. A job's clips always start in Portrait 9:16.

## Choose a layout

A clip is made of scenes, the stretches between camera changes, and each has a layout. **Layout** names the layout of the scene under the playhead, and choosing another changes that scene.

| Layout | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| Auto | The framing Snipri chose for the scene when it made the clip. |
| One person | One part of the video, cropped to fill the whole frame. |
| Two people | Two views stacked one above the other, for two people in one shot. |
| Full video | The whole video, fitted inside the frame. |
| Three views | Three views stacked from top to bottom. |
| Four views | Four views in a grid. |
| Screen + speaker | The screen in a large view and the speaker in a smaller one under it, or beside it in a square or landscape clip. |

- To change the whole clip at once, press **All scenes** before you choose. A scene that already plays the layout you pick keeps its own views.
- To change several scenes, choose them on the timeline's video row: Shift or Ctrl click a scene to add it to the choice.
- To give part of one long scene a different layout, put the playhead where the change should happen and press **Split scene**. Each part then takes a layout of its own.

## Move the frame

On the video, click a view to select it. Drag the picture to move it inside the view, and scroll or press + and − to zoom it. **Reset view** puts the selected view back as the layout drew it.

For more control, press **Adjust**, or **Adjust view** on a selected view. **Adjust view** shows the original video beside your clip:

1. Drag the frame over the original video to choose what the view shows, and pull an edge or a corner to resize it.
2. Choose a shape on the **Crop** row, if you want a fixed one.
3. Play the scene to check it, then press **Use this framing**. **Reset** goes back to how the scene was when you opened it, and **Cancel** leaves without changing it.

The Crop row sets the shape of the frame inside the view: Fill view, Full video, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 or 9:16. Fill view fills the view, Full video shows the whole original video in it, and a fixed shape is fitted inside the view. A frame you resize by hand is Custom.

A change in **Adjust view** applies to that one scene, as the line at its foot says.

## When the original video does not load

Framing works from the original video, so the editor loads it for the scenes that use it. If it cannot, the editor says so, and **Try loading video again** fetches it once more. A clip saved with framing settings the editor no longer offers names each one, with **Reset to Auto** beside it.

## Save your edits

The new framing waits until you press **Save changes**, and the clip renders again with it at no cost. The [auto reframe](https://www.snipri.com/features/auto-reframe) page shows the framing at work, and [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) shows where every other tool is.

Previous guide: [Trim and split a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/trim-and-split-a-clip)

Next guide: [Keyboard shortcuts in the editor](https://www.snipri.com/docs/editor-keyboard-shortcuts)

Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said.