- Wondering how to use Instagram Reels templates?
This is a way to take other people's
super professional videos and make your Instagram Reels
look just as professional in just a few seconds.
And I'll walk you through how to do it step-by-step
in this video, all right?
Let's jump into it.
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My name is Jerry Potter and in this video,
we're gonna walk through
how to use Instagram Reels templates.
So basically, if you see a video you like,
it may have the use template feature on it
and you can take it and drop in your own photos
or video clips and have an incredibly awesome,
professional looking Instagram Reel in just seconds.
So there's two ways to access Instagram Reels templates
in the Instagram app.
One of them is to just click the Reels icon
on the bottom middle there to go to the Reels tab.
And so this basically opens Instagram Reels.
Then you can click on the camera icon
that's in the upper right corner there.
It's gonna bring up the create Reels interface,
and then down at the bottom,
you'll see underneath the record button, it says Reel,
and then right next to it, it says Templates.
So I tap on Templates or slide swipe over to Templates.
And now I can browse all of these templates
and choose one that I think will be a good fit.
Now, that's kind of the way to access a bunch
of popular ones.
The way that I find myself using it more often, though,
is to actually just be browsing Reels
and then, you'll see some, like this one,
that says Use Template at the bottom
right above all the other text.
It says Use Template, I tap on that, it opens it up,
and then I can start using the template from here.
So whether you get here from browsing templates
or you actually see one in the feed of Reels that you like,
this is what it looks like when you start to create a Reel.
Unfortunately, there's no way to save templates
or no good way to save templates as of yet,
the way you can save a piece of audio, for example.
But the workaround is to tap back out of here
by Xing out and then save this Reel.
So I'm gonna tap the three dots on the lower right.
Then I'm gonna click that Save bookmark icon there
across the top.
And now that has saved it.
Then from my profile,
I go into the menu under the three lines there
on the upper right.
And then you can see saved items there.
I tap Saved and it's gonna come up
as the most recently saved item.
So I go right into it,
tap it again so that it goes full screen,
and now you can see that Use Template option
is there again.
So, once we have a template that we want,
tap that, here's where we are.
At the bottom, it shows all of the pictures or video clips
that you're going to need,
along with the lengths.
You can see it says .8, .3, .1.
Those are all the length of seconds
that each one is going to show
in order for it to be synced up with the music.
As you can see, this one has quite a lot.
I don't know how many that is, 12, 15?
All you have to do is tap the plus sign on each one
and add whatever photos or video clips you wanna use.
And if you have them already organized
in your camera roll,
you can actually just go through and add them in order
however you want.
So, these are just a bunch of random pictures
from my camera roll.
I'm gonna tap until they are all full.
Obviously, if you are being more specific
about the order and things like that,
then it might be a little trickier.
So is that all of them? Great.
Otherwise, if you didn't have to do all of them at once,
you might just tap on one,
then you can go to the next one, find the next one,
until you have them all set.
Once you've got 'em the way you want,
then you hit that forward arrow on the lower right.
It says generating your Reel, and that's it,
it drops everything in there,
whether it's a video clip or a photo
and fills all of those spots.
Now, if it is a video clip that you are using,
then you can actually click into it
and then you can move this around to choose the part
of the video that you want to make sure to use.
You can't change the length because it's a template,
but you can move this back and forth
to the area that makes the most sense.
Once you have the clips the way you want,
you click that Edit button on the lower right.
Now this comes up as a regular Reel.
Now you can't add music because the templates already have
the music and the sound with them.
However, you can add text or stickers or polls
or different things like that,
like you can normally do with a Reel.
One workaround is you could download it
without the sound and then re-upload it and add sound.
But that kills one of the best part
of a lotta these templates,
and that is that your images and videos
are already synced up to the song.
Once you've got it the way you want it,
hit Next, do what you would normally do to publish the Reel,
and then go ahead and hit Share.
So a quick recap on how to use Instagram Reels templates.
You click Use Template on any Reel that you see
where you like the way it looks,
add your own clips,
and add any text that you want and that's it.
Go ahead and hit Publish and you've created
an Instagram Reel using somebody else's template.
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