Suggested Focus Areas, Do It for Me, and zooming one caption or title

Applies to 0.11Updated 9 Nov 20262 min read

Pick the Area Tool and the app outlines the people, faces and objects at the playhead. Click them in the order you want, or let Do It for Me lay out the whole sequence.

Pro (masks and tracking), like the rest of Focus Areas. The picture is looked at on your Mac by Apple's own on-device finder. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Pick from the suggestions

• Pause the video and click Area in the Tools panel. People, objects, faces and anything that stands out get a dashed outline with a ＋.
• Click them in the order you want. Each becomes the next number, cut out along the object's own outline; a face becomes an ellipse.
• Click a picked area again to take it out; the others renumber. Click where nothing was suggested to find the object under the pointer. Dragging still draws your own shape.
• Move the playhead and the app looks again. Find Again (↻) forces a new look.

How they play

• From where you started picking, each area comes out, stays and goes back, then the next.
• Choose 3.0 s each or Share the Clip on the second line of the Area bar. On a short clip the turns get shorter, down to a second each; the status line says how many fit.
• Follow moving (on by default) follows each area over a video during its turn.
• Do It for Me takes every suggestion, numbered Left to Right or Biggest First, and lays out the whole sequence in one undo step.

Zoom one item: Zooms

• At the top of an area's settings in the Focus Areas window, Zooms is Everything Under It by default.
• Choose one item at the playhead instead: the caption on screen, a title, a graphic or text card, an image or a video. It is drawn alone and zoomed.
• A caption, title or graphic is cut out along its own edges: the letters and their box, not a rectangle of the video behind.