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How to remove your video background and replace it with an image or video in Detail iOS or iPadOS
How to remove your video background and replace it with an image or video in Detail iOS or iPadOS
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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 (πŸ”„) 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 (πŸ”²)

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 (πŸ’§) 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 (πŸ”„) 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.

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