Add a background behind your video

• Solid: one colour, typed as a hex value or picked from the swatches. In Chrome and Edge on a computer, the eyedropper picks a colour straight from your clip.
• Gradient: two colours in a line, a radial glow or a four-colour mesh. Match video colours builds one from your footage.
• Image: your own photo, texture or brand graphic, scaled to cover the frame and centred. It is read on your device and never uploaded.
• Blur: a soft, moving copy of the clip, or a two-colour Duotone version of it.

Over 400 designs add patterns, paper textures and frames on top of these fills. Press Browse all looks to try them on a still of your clip.

The most common reason to add a background is a landscape clip going to a vertical app. Pick 9:16, and the clip spans the screen’s width with background above and below. That space is a natural place for a title: use Caption under More options to write one in the top or bottom band. The vertical conversion guide covers the safe areas TikTok and Reels leave clear.

They overlap, but people mean slightly different things. A background fills the space around a smaller video, usually in a new shape. A border is an even edge round the video in its own shape, like the white border look. A frame is a drawn object, such as a Polaroid, film strip or gilt picture frame. All three are made here with the same controls, and you can combine them: a white card with a shadow, on a gradient, in a 9:16 frame.

It doesn’t cut a person out of their surroundings or replace a green screen. That needs a video editor with chroma key or AI background removal, and it changes the footage itself. Here the footage is untouched; only the canvas around it is new.

If your aim is simply to fill black bars with something better, the blurred fill on the blurred background page is the quickest route.