Titles, cut-outs and collage

Everything here is drawn over your picture, in the preview and in the finished mosh. Titles and shapes can be moshed with the video (they melt with it) or kept clean on top. Every control has a line under it saying what it does.

Type

• Looks. Pick a built-in look for a title, or save your own and new titles start in it.
• Gradients and mixed styles. A title can have a gradient fill, a different look on each line, and different colours on single words.
• Curve and perspective. Bend a title into an arch or a smile, or lean it back or to the side.
• Shadow, outline and glow work on any title or shape.
• Script. Type lines of text and they become titles, one after another or on the beats, and stay linked to the text.

Shapes and marks

Boxes, circles, polygons, arrows, leader lines with a square at each end, brackets, underlines, a highlighter, hearts, sparkles, starbursts, a flower, an asterisk, a squiggle, tape and torn paper. Lines can draw themselves on and wobble like a hand-drawn mark. Callout puts a box, a leader line and a label together as one group, and Mark something moving boxes, arrows and labels something and follows it.

Cut out a subject

In the Clip tab, Cut out a subject, then tap the thing on the player. It is followed through the clip, so titles, shapes and other clips can sit behind the subject, or only on it. You can recolour or outline the subject, blur everything else, or make a sticker of it. The models download the first time and run on your device.

Pin to the scene

Pin on any title or shape lists everything tracked in the project: objects, faces and flat surfaces such as a screen, a wall or a sign. Choose one and the layer moves with it from where it is now (a surface also turns and leans it). Pin again here pins it afresh from the playhead and Unpin lets go. A clip can also play on a tracked surface, as a screen replacement.

Collage and fake screens

• Cards. A clip can sit in a polaroid, a white card or a taped-on photo, with a caption.
• Masks. A circle, rectangle, triangle, star or heart that can grow over the clip.
• Pop in. Cards and stickers can snap, pop or slide in on the next beat.
• Split screen layouts, whose cells can swap places on the beat.
• Canvas. A colour, gradient or blurred backdrop, a phone, browser, music player or chat mockup round the picture, and a zoom into the screen.
• Fake phone UI. A click ripple, selected text with handles and a menu, and a notification banner.

Beats

When the music has a beat, the Start and Duration of titles and shapes can be shown and typed in beats (press the unit button beside the number): it follows the real beats, so a tempo change is followed too. Start on the beat moves a layer onto the nearest beat. Zoom punch (Z) and Shake (H) in the Clip tab jump the picture in or knock it sideways on every beat (or bar) and ease it back, as keyframes you can change; Hit strength sets how hard, and Motion blur smooths them like a camera shutter. Speed ramp › On the beat (Shift V) is a velocity edit: slow on each beat, rushing between, and the clip keeps its length. Reveal one per beat brings selected layers in one at a time, particles can burst on the beats, Flash a colour on every beat (in the command palette) puts a few frames of colour on each one, and a Flipbook swaps pictures on the beat, even behind the subject.

Looks

Halftone can print dots or lines, in the picture's colours or in two inks. Step print holds each picture for a few frames, for a clip or for a whole track. Film looks (Cinematic Film and Degraded 8 mm) are presets of grade, halation, grain, gate weave, light leaks and vignette that you can tweak.

Steal this edit

On the home screen, Steal this edit and pick a video you like. moshpit measures how it cuts, how long its shots are, its real frame rate, its colours and any bars or card round the picture, then cuts your clips the same way, on the beats of your music if it cut on the beat. Nothing leaves your device.

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