Content

Combine images, drawings, video, text, and audio on the Timeline to bring your movie to life.

To import video, images, and audio:

1. Tap the plus button to enter the Create menu, then tap Photo, Video, or File.

2. Select the content you wish to import.

3. Your selected content will be imported, and appear in a new track on the Timeline.

Learn about supported file formats on the Content types page of this handbook.

Create content

Create original content in Procreate Dreams using Draw & Paint, or the Text tool.

To add drawn content:

1. Tap the Create button and tap Flipbook or Drawing.

You will immediately enter Draw & Paint mode, and your drawn content will appear in the newly created track on the Timeline.

Learn more about how to sketch, draw, and paint in Procreate Dreams in the Draw & Paint section of this handbook.

To add text:

1. Tap the Create button , and tap Text .

Use the Text tool to add and edit text.

To add an empty track:

1. Tap the Create button , and tap Track.

Select, move, and trim content

Select, move, and trim content on the Timeline to construct your movie.

Select content

Select content to transform it on the Stage, add keyframes, or edit in Draw & Paint.

1. Tap your content on the Timeline to select it with the Playhead.

2. If the content is visible on the Stage, a bounding box will appear around it.

Move content

Move content along the Timeline to change its position in your movie. Move content between tracks to move it further into the foreground or background on the Stage.

Tap, hold, and drag the content to move it along the Timeline.

Trim content

Adjust content duration to change the timing of your movie and achieve perfect cuts.

1. Tap on the content, then tap again to bring up handles on the left and right edges.

2. Hold the left or right edge of the content you want to adjust so a red highlight appears on that edge.

3. Drag the edge horizontally left or right to adjust the duration of the content.

Trimming will stop when the maximum duration of the content is reached, or extending further would overwrite neighboring content on the same track. To continue trimming in this situation, use push/pull, as described below.

Trimming in Procreate Dreams is non-destructive. This means you can go back and extend the content if you change your mind later, and trimming content won't decrease the file size of your movie.

Free Trim content

Content that exists immediately next to each other on the same track can be adjusted by pushing/pulling both tracks at once. This allows you to adjust the timing of content while keeping neighboring content in the same relative position.

1. Long hold the left or right edge of the content you want to push or pull until a red highlight appears on that edge.

2. Place a second finger on your screen.

3. Drag the edge horizontally left or right to adjust the duration of that content and push or pull adjacent content along the timeline.

Content and modes

You can modify content in different ways depending on the mode you're currently in.

Move content

When in Compose mode, move, rotate, stretch, and flip visual content on the Stage. Use Perform mode to record changes to your content, and use Keyframe mode to input and edit keyframes for it.

In Compose:

Move, scale and resize content on the Stage area.

1. Select your content on the Timeline, then tap on the Stage area to reveal the blue bounding box around your content.

2. Drag from within or outside the bounding box to move the content around on Stage and Backstage area.

3. Drag from a corner node to uniformly scale the content up or down.

4. Drag from a middle node to stretch it along the axis, or to flip the content (stretch it past its opposite point).

In Perform and Keyframe:

Resize and stretch content using the corner nodes or bounding box.

1. Select your content on the Timeline, tap the Playhead and add a Move → Move and Scale keyframe.

2. Drag a corner node of the bounding box on the Stage to transform the content uniformly.

3. Drag the side of the bounding box to transform the content non-uniformly. Drag it beyond its opposite boundary to flip the content.

4. Drag the bounding box anywhere on the Stage or Backstage to change its position.

5. Drag the rotation handle above the content to rotate it clockwise or counter-clockwise.

Rotate content

In Compose mode, you rotate your content around its central point. In the Perform and Keyframe modes, set the anchor point for the content and rotate around that.

In Compose:

Select your content on the Timeline, then tap on the Stage area to reveal the blue bounding box around your content. Drag the grey node above your content to rotate it from its central point.

In Perform and Keyframe:

1. Select your content on the Timeline, tap the Playhead and add a Move → Move and Scale keyframe.

2. On the Stage, tap the corner node you wish to rotate from. A rotate handle will appear around the corner node.

3. Drag the rotate handle to rotate around the content’s anchor point .

Edit anchor point

The anchor point is the position that your content rotates around. Each item of content has its own anchor point.

1. Activate Perform or Keyframe mode at the bottom of the interface

2. Select your content on the Timeline, then tap the ellipses button in the top right-hand corner of the bounding box to open the transform options context menu

3. Tap Edit anchor . The current anchor point [anchor icon] will appear in the bounding box

4. Drag the anchor point to your desired position

5. Tap Done in the top right corner

Enable transform snapping

Snap your content while translating, rotating, or scaling content on the Stage. You must be in Perform or Keyframe mode to use snapping.

When translating with snapping enabled, content snaps to the edges and center of the Stage. When rotating, content snaps in 30º increments around its anchor point .

To enable snapping, place a second finger on the screen while translating or rotating content in Perform or Keyframe mode.

Flip content

1. Activate Perform or Keyframe mode at the bottom of the interface

2. Select content on the Timeline, to reveal a bounding box around it on the Stage.

3. Tap the ellipses button in the top right-hand corner of the bounding box to open the transform options context menu.

4. Tap Flip horizontal or Flip Vertical to flip your content around the anchor point.

Split content

Split content into two for easy editing.

1. Position the Playhead along the content’s track to where you would like to split the content.

2. Tap and hold the Playhead line on the content itself to open the Track Options menu.

3. Tap Split content . The content will split into two where the Playhead is situated. The Playhead will be positioned on the second segment after the split.

Group content

Modifying grouped content is an efficient and powerful way to work. Move or animate multiple tracks together or apply keyframes to a group to speed up your workflow.

Create a group with Multi-select

Multi-select adds and removes multiple pieces of content or entire tracks from a selection using Apple Pencil. When in Multi-select mode, drawing on the Timeline with Apple Pencil or your finger leaves a glowing red trail of light to show what content or tracks you have selected.

1. Tap Multi-select in the main toolbar.

2. Draw around or over content or tracks on the Timeline with Apple Pencil to select them.

3. Selected content or tracks are highlighted by a red outline.

4. Continue drawing around content or tracks to add or remove them from the current selection.

5. Tap and hold the selected content until a context menu appears. Tap Group .

Once grouped the selected content will be combined and be titled ‘Group’ with an arrow next to the title.

Expand and view tracks inside a group

1. Tap the arrow icon on a group to expand and collapse it. The arrow will rotate downwards to indicate when a group is open. 

2. Once expanded, a group will show you all the tracks and content within.

3. You can tap on an individual piece of content within a group to edit it without affecting the rest of the group. You can also drag content in and out of a group or add extra tracks and content to a group by tapping the plus in the main toolbar and using the Create menu options.

4. You can move and adjust a group like any other content on the timeline.

Ungroup

1. Tap and hold a group until a context menu appears and tap Ungroup . 

2. All the tracks and content within the group will expand out into individual tracks on your Timeline.

Convert content to a Flipbook

Using the steps above to select content with Multi-select, you can combine any content (sans audio) into a Flipbook. Use Multi-select, draw around content, then tap and hold on any selected element to bring up the content options menu. Tap Convert to Flipbook in here, and wait for Procreate Dreams to perform the conversion.

Read about how Procreate Dreams treats different content for Flipbook conversions in this article .

Convert a Flipbook to tracks

You can also convert a Flipbook back to tracks if you'd like to work on the content individually on tracks in the Timeline. To do this, tap and hold on a Flipbook on the Timeline, and select 'Convert Flipbook to tracks'.

Delete content

Tap and hold on the content you wish to delete. The content options menu will appear, then tap Delete content .

Read about the Content options menu (when you tap hold on content) here .