---
title: "The camera placeholder"
description: "See where your camera will sit before you record."
slug: "en/customs/design/the-camera-placeholder"
url: "https://docs.custom.one/en/customs/design/the-camera-placeholder/"
capability: "result-page-modules"
published_at: "2026-09-11T09:38:59.406Z"
---
The camera bubble isn't part of your design — it's placed over the page when the
video is made. So on a bare canvas there's nothing telling you your headline is
about to end up underneath your own face.

The **camera placeholder** is that marker: a dashed outline in the shape your
camera will be, sitting where your camera will sit.

## Turn it on

It isn't in the modules. It's the camera button at the **top right of the
canvas**, beside **Test** — click it to show the placeholder, click it again to
hide it.

The first time you turn it on, a round marker appears in the bottom-left corner.
After that it stays where you leave it.

## Move it and shape it

Drag it like any other block, and pull a corner to resize it. Select it and the
toolbar above the page offers three shapes — **Round**, **Square** and **Free** —
the same shapes the recorder uses.

Where you put it isn't just a note to yourself: when you start recording, the
camera opens in that spot, at that size, in that shape. You can still move it
while recording.

## Hiding it changes nothing

The placeholder never appears on a real result page or in a video — it only
exists in this editor. Hiding it is a view preference for you alone: it doesn't
delete the marker, doesn't move the camera, and doesn't affect anyone else on
your team.