Overview of removing & replacing your video
If you are creating a tutorial video, or a reaction video, or you simply want to record yourself over an image or video, you can do that easily in Detail iOS or iPadOS in a few taps.
Note ✨ Background replacement can happen before or after recording, and you can replace the background of a selfie video you recorded in Detail or imported into Detail.
How to remove and replace your background with a color or image
Step 1. Start a new project
Open a new project or import your Selfie video by tapping the Import Video shortcut from the Library
If you start a new project from scratch, the app should open a project with the Selfie camera turned on, if it doesn't, simply tap the Switch icon (🔄) on the left-side menu to toggle to the Selfie (front) camera.
Step 2. Choose Full Screen Layout
Tap Layout
Choose the full screen layout (🔲)
Step 3. Mask yourself
From the layout menu, Tap Masking on the left menu – it's the first option at the top of that menu.
Tapping Masking will instantly cut out your background and reveal the canvas at the back.
Step 4. Choose a color or image
Tap the color dropper tool icon on the left menu (💧) top open the color menu
Choose one of our pre-created colors or backgrounds, or add your own color from, or tap the image icon to choose an image from your camera roll.
Tap the tick to save your option – you'll land back in the Layouts menu, either stay here to add a shadow or tap the tick again to go back to the recording screen to start recording.
Step 5. Add a shadow behind you (optional)
Adding a shadow behind you will create depth in the masking, helping to give a more realistic green screen effect.
While still in the Layout menu, tap Shadow
Choose a shadow option – you can also change the color of your shadow
How to remove and replace your background with a video or image
NOTE: this can only be done in the PiP (Picture in Picture) layout
Step 1. Start a new project
Open a new project or import your Selfie video by tapping the Import Video shortcut from the Library
If you start a new project from scratch, the app should open a project with the Selfie camera turned on, if it doesn't, simply tap the Switch icon (🔄) on the left-side menu to toggle to the Selfie (front) camera.
Step 2. Choose the Picture in Picture layout
Tap Layout
Choose the PiP layout – the video of you will then go small and you'll see the back camera feed in the background.
You can move the smaller video around to any corner by tapping the Position icon in the left menu
Tap the tick to save and go back to the recording view
Step 3. Add a video or image behind you
From the recording view, tap Sources and choose Background
You can either add a video via a web link, a video on your camera roll, or a photo
Tap the tick to save this option
Step 4. Add a shadow or mask yourself (optional)
If you want to add a shadow behind the smaller video, tap Layout and tap Shadow to choose an option – this will add some depth.
If you want to cut yourself out so it looks like you're on a green screen, tap Layout and choose the first option (Masking) in the left-side menu (the avatar with the transparent background). Turning Masking on once will mask you, and turning it on twice will also mask any person in the background video.
Pausing the background video while recording
If you have added a video behind via your camera roll or by importing it from the web using a link, you can pause and play the video while you are recording.
Tap on the background video to pause it, and tap it again to play it again.
Audio while recording over a background video
If you are not wearing headphones, the app will auto-mute the background video so that the sound from the background video doesn't feed back into the recording. You can turn the volume of the background video back up when you're done recording.