How to use picture-in-picture

Adding a photo or video on top of another clip creates a picture-in-picture effect in your editing project.

Written by Tobias
Updated over a week ago

You can use the picture-in-picture (PiP) tool to place a smaller video clip or image on top of the mainframe of your project in Clipchamp.

Moving picture of picture in picture example

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Here is how to do it

Add a video, gif, or image to the editing timeline.
Select/ highlight the item.
The layout panel will appear above or near the preview screen.

Close up of picture in picture button under layout

Click it to enable PiP.

Then, move the item onto a 2nd row on the timeline above another image or video you want it to appear on top of:

Two videos on the timeline one above each other

Click the icon again to see the placement and size options:

The following shows the steps in sequence:

Moving picture of using the picture in picture feature and moving the top layer video around the video preview