Tella Launches Media Layouts for B-Roll and Motion Graphics
Tella's new Media Layouts let creators drop b-roll, images, and motion graphics into recordings from the editor or via MCP. Here is how it works.
Tella has launched Media Layouts, a new way to add b-roll, images, motion graphics, and other visuals directly into your recordings. Instead of exporting to a separate editor to layer in supporting footage, creators can now pick media, adjust its duration, and customise its style without leaving Tella, either by hand in the editor or programmatically through MCP.
What Media Layouts actually adds
Tella has always been about polished screen recordings with custom layouts, zoom effects, and camera framing. Media Layouts extends that same layout system to inserted media. You choose an image, a clip of b-roll, or a motion graphic, place it on the timeline, and Tella treats it as a first-class layout section rather than a bolted-on overlay. The workflow is deliberately simple: pick the media, set how long it should appear, and adjust styling so it matches the rest of your video. Because it lives inside Tella's editor, the media inherits the same backgrounds and framing options as your screen and camera clips.
Editing by hand or handing it to an agent
The most interesting part is that Media Layouts is available both in the editor and via MCP. Tella recently shipped an Editor MCP that exposes its editing endpoints as tools an AI agent can call, covering cutting, trimming, adding zooms, changing layouts, and rearranging clips. Media Layouts plugs into that same surface, with CRUD control over layout sections on a clip so an agent can add or swap media end-to-end. In practice that means you can describe the b-roll you want dropped in and let an assistant place it, rather than clicking through the timeline yourself.
Why it matters for creators
For anyone making tutorials, product demos, or course content, b-roll and supporting visuals are what separate a raw screen capture from something that feels produced. Traditionally that meant round-tripping through a heavier editor. Keeping media insertion inside the recording tool shortens the loop between capturing and publishing, which is exactly the kind of friction Tella has been chipping away at with its browser-based, no-download flow. Pairing it with MCP also nods to where creator tooling is heading: repeatable, automatable edits that an agent can apply across many videos.
Sources: @TellaHQ announcement on X, Tella Changelog, Tella MCP.