Video

Which recordings work, how a fit applies to every frame, what the free preview shows, and where the MP4 goes.

A screen recording is fitted exactly like a still: match the four edges once, and every frame follows: perspective, light, grain and focus matched to the photograph on each of them.

What to bring

• A screen recording. MP4, MOV or WebM. A prototype recording from Figma, a phone screen recording, a QuickTime capture: anything that is the screen and only the screen, at the device’s aspect ratio. Crop out any chrome or status bar you don’t want on the glass first.
• A photograph of the device, as for a still. A recording moving on a phone that is itself slightly out of focus is the strongest thing this tool makes. A snapshot is fine.

Fitting

Fit on one frame (the scrubber lets you pick one where the screen content has clear edges) and the fit holds for the whole clip. Play it in the plugin to check it before rendering anything.

Free, Pro

• Free: fit, and play it in the plugin at full resolution. You can see it work on your own recording, in your own photo.
• Pro and Studio: Download the MP4, and Place video on canvas.

There’s no enforcement trick here: Figma has no video export of its own, so the plugin’s download is the only way an MP4 exists on disk.

Formats

Download writes H.264 in an MP4 container. It plays everywhere, drops into a deck, a site or a post. The plugin renders in the browser; there is no ProRes encoder in a browser, so the ProRes option in the local workbench renders as H.264 at a higher bitrate in the plugin: a good source for a further edit, not a mezzanine file. If you need ProRes, the Cowork route renders it locally.

Audio is not carried through. Mute the recording, or add sound in the editor you take the MP4 into.

Placing on the canvas

Figma allows video on the canvas only on plans with video upload. If yours doesn’t, Download still works. The plugin never needs the canvas to hand you the file.