Add shapes to your scene—they're incredibly versatile! Use them as containers for images and text, create eye-catching overlays, design interactive buttons, add arrows and labels, and much more.

Add a shape

1. Click the Shape button in the top toolbar.
2. Select a shape from the available options.
3. Drag and position the shape in your scene, then adjust its size, rotation, color, border, and shadow settings as desired.

Available shapes:

Shape settings

Select a shape and head to the inspector panel to adjust its settings. Double-clicking on a shape to add text will also reveal text style settings.

Interactivity

Toggle on interactivity to turn your shape into a button (Hint: double-click on your shape to add button text).

Layout

Use the layout settings to:

• Lock the layer to prevent accidentally moving it
• Adjust the element's alignment and distribution to the canvas and to other elements
• Move it forward or backward in the layer order
• Manually adjust or set its X and Y coordinates on the canvas
• Manually adjust or set its height and width (with the option to constrain its proportions)
• Manually adjust or set its angle/rotation
• Flip it over a vertical or horizontal axis

Text

Text settings will appear if you double-click on a shape and add text to it.

Layer

Opacity

Adjust the transparency of the entire shape layer. Alternatively, you can adjust the opacity for either the fill color and/or the border. That way, you could have a semi-transparent fill color, with a fully opaque border color, or the inverse. Adjust the layer opacity instead impacts the entire layer.

Radius

Adjust the border radius (corner roundness) for a shape.

For rectangular shapes (squares, rectangles, images, videos, and SVG icons), you can control each corner independently:

1. Select a rectangular shape.
2. In the Radius section, click the corner icon on the right to set the radius for each corner independently.
3. Adjust each corner separately: top-left, top-right, bottom-right, and bottom-left

This gives you precise control for custom designs, such as buttons with rounded top corners or speech bubble shapes.

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Note:

Clicking the corner icon again will link all corners back together so they have the same radius.

Fill

Change the shape fill color—it can be a solid color or a linear gradient.

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Note:

Gradients are only available as a color option for fill and text color—not for borders or shadows.

Color picker

Change a color or apply a gradient using the color picker:

• Other colors in this video: Select from colors already used in this video.
• Custom colors and gradients: Click the rainbow square with the plus icon to create your own.
• Theme colors: Use colors from your Brand kit (Enterprise only).
• Base colors: Choose from a default palette.
• Base gradients: Select from pre-built gradient options.

When adding a new color or after selecting an existing color, you can choose between HSL or Hex input and define the opacity of the color:

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Change all

After selecting a color, click Change all to replace every instance of that color throughout your entire video.

Gradients

Click the rainbow square with the plus icon, then toggle from Color to Gradient at the top of the color picker to create a linear gradient.

Use the arrows to set the gradient direction, or set a number for the angle directly in the text box. Drag the color stops to adjust the gradient style as desired.

Border

Toggle the border option in the inspector panel on to add and define the shape's border color and thickness.

Shadow

Toggle the shadow option in the inspector panel on to add and define the shape's shadow style, color, and the opacity of the shadow.

There are three shadow style options: soft, regular (default), and retro: