Does anyone know how to add a voiceover on top of music in a Reel?
What if you don't have music anymore?
If you've ever asked these same questions that my students have asked,
you're in the right place, because in today's video,
I'm sharing my favorite editing hacks for Instagram Reels.
And stay tuned until the end where I'm going to share my top secret way to boost
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any future trainings just like this one. This has worked for my student, Becky,
who was terrified of making her first Reel,
but she ripped the bandaid off and did it anyway.
I'm Elise Darma and I've helped thousands of entrepreneurs, freelancers,
and creators like yourself use Instagram to actually make revenue in your
business. And today I'm sharing Instagram Reels editing hacks.
Let's dive in. Here are my five tips.
My very first tip is how to use a song even if you don't yet have the music
feature. At the time of creating this video,
Reels is still relatively new and so what I'm seeing is not all accounts have
the music feature.
But there is one little hack that my student Joyce tried and she said it worked
for her. And this is what it is. So here I am inside of one of my accounts,
and if I hit the plus button and then Reel and tap
'audio',
I can see that it says "Instagram music is not available for some accounts." So
if you're seeing a message like this, here is my suggested workaround.
What you can do is go to the Discover tab and then look up Reels
and swipe through and find a song that you like. Okay.
So here's Travis Scott, "Stargazing".
So when you find another Reel that's using music or audio,
what you can do is tap the title of that song.
And then you're going to see the button "use audio". If you tap that button,
you may get the option to use that music in your Reel.
Here I am on another song's page that I found. So when I tap "use audio",
now I can see that that audio is actually loaded up into this
Reel. So this works for some accounts. It might not work for all accounts.
And if this is the case for you,
and you're trying to bring in a song from another Reel, it's just not loading,
what you can do is actually create a Reel with
music in a separate app. I'm going to cover that next.
So this brings me to my second tip,
which is how to add a voiceover or add music to your video if you
don't have the music feature and for this tip,
you're going to have to use another app.
And the one I recommend is called InShot. So here I am inside of InShot.
And when I go to tap, "create new video",
it's actually going to pull up videos from my camera roll.
So the very first thing you need to do is film the video that you want to use to
create your Reel. So let's go ahead and do that now.
This is my demo of how to add a voiceover or add music to your Reels if
you don't have the music feature.
So right now I'm recording in my camera app,
or I can also record in the Instagram app and save it to my camera roll.
Okay. So I've just recorded my 15 second clip.
Now I'm going to go back to InShot and open up that clip.
So I'm going to hit "new" and there's the clip that I just filmed,
hit the checkmark. And now it's been brought into InShot.
So this is the app where you can overlay either music or a voiceover.
So a voiceover would make sense if you pulled in multiple clips of, say,
your travels around Bali, right? So you have all these visuals of Bali.
So if you're going to pull in multiple clips, like I just described,
you're simply going to hit that plus button and pull in your video clips.
But for now,
if you're going to add a voiceover over clips or music,
the one key area of the InShot app that you need to look at is called
"music". Okay? So let me tap "music".
And this is where you can either hit the record button to add in a voiceover.
So that would be on top of your Bali clips, or in this case right now,
I'm going to go to "tracks" and I'm going to add a music clip on top of
what I've filmed. So let's go to "tracks" and you have a couple options.
You can go to their featured music clips. So those are copyright free.
You can also import music. You can go to your iTunes,
you can pull in songs from there. And then there's something called Effects,
which is not related to what we're talking about. So in this case,
I can go to iTunes and I can pull in my song that I use.
So let's hit "use".
And now you can see that the music track is on top of my audio that I already
filmed in my clip.
So if you want to bring the audio level down of the music,
simply tap on the music bar and then hit "volume" and you can bring your
music way down. You can even add in a fade in or fade out.
So hit the check,
and then you're going to want to split this music clip right at the
end, so that it ends with your talking clip.
And then you're going to want to delete everything after.
So I'm just going to hit the delete button.
That's how you're going to add music to a clip even if you don't have the music
feature. Now, just to quickly show you how to add a voiceover I'm in InShot,
and I've just pulled in a few clips from my Bali trip, right?
So those are the clips. Now I want to add a voiceover.
So I'm going to go to music and then tap record.
Bali was a dream. Here I am at the Nusa Penida Island.
This day was simply fabulous. In the afternoon, we were met with rain,
which typically happens in Bali.
And then I commuted to Ubud on my scooter.
Alright. That, was me recording a voiceover. If you're happy with that,
take hit the checkmark button.
Let's just play that to hear what it sounds like.
"Bali was a dream here.
I am at the Nusa Penida Island." So that gives you an idea of how you
add your voiceover on top of clips.
And of course in InShot you can play around with the volume of the other clips
so that your voiceover really stands out.
My third tip is how to use the green screen effect to share an older
photo. This can be really powerful,
especially when you're sharing transformations of yourself or your customers.
So you're going to open up Instagram Reels,
load in the green screen effect and then tap "add media". Okay.
So I'm just going to go to some of my favorites and scroll all the way back to
where I have my old, old photos. Um, so let's choose this one,
but as you can see, I just tapped it and it didn't load.
I do find that currently it can be a little bit buggy when
you're loading in older photos. So let me just try another one.
There we go. And it's not loading. So if this happens to you,
here's what I recommend. You're going to have to go to your camera roll,
find that old image and actually take a screenshot of it.
So let me show you what that looks like.
Now that I've taken screenshots of my older images. Now,
when I'm back in the green screen effect, and I go to "add media",
I'm going to see my screenshots right there in my camera roll.
And now it has worked so we can pinch to zoom. And there we go.
We've added an old photo to our Reel using the green screen
effect.
The fourth editing hack for your Instagram Reels is adding a border because this
really makes your Instagram Reel pop. So how do you add a border to your Reel?
You need to use an external app. And for this one,
I recommend the app called Unfold.
So here I am inside of Unfold and I already have some templates loaded up with
borders. This one, for example.
So what I can do is tap this hit X and then pull in my
15 second video that I already filmed and that I can export
with the border. So if I hit this downward button and say,
"save to device",
it's actually going to save this 15 second video with this colorful border,
which I've already loaded in. Let's say,
you're starting from scratch with Unfold.
What you're going to do is hit the plus button down here,
and you can see that with this particular design pack,
I've got a couple of border options. So maybe I like this one. So what this,
again, allows me to do is pull in the 15 second clip from my camera roll.
And then the second part of the design is the border.
So I can go ahead and pull something nice from my favorites,
maybe I have a graphic design or an image that I really like,
like this one. And there you go. I've just edited in my custom border. So again,
once you're happy with it,
you're going to hit the down button in the upper right.
And save this to your device. And then once you're back inside of Reels,
you're simply going to swipe up and find that clip from your camera roll
and voilà. There you go. You have just created a Reel with a border.
The fifth Instagram Reel editing hack is how you boost your views in the
algorithm.
The key here is at the very end of your Reel to add in
multiple text clips that appear right at the end.
What happens is when they appear at the end and they appear really quickly,
people are going to want to rewatch your entire Reel from the beginning to
make sure that they catch what you said at the end.
And this is what lets the algorithm know that your Reel is one that people are
watching over and over again. Once the algorithm picks up on this,
more people are going to see your Reel. Let me show you what this looks like.
So here I am in a Reel that I've already created,
and I'm just going to hit the "edit" button to show you what I have so far.
You can see here that I've already brought in text,
which I've timed to my motions and the music.
But right when I say "courses, AKA",
I want to add in more text clips so that people have to rewatch the
video because they're going to appear so quickly.
So what I'm going to do is hit the "a" in the upper right.
And I'm just going to say, "info products"
and put that down here. "Mini courses",
put that down here.
And then what's another product? What's another way to say courses?
We could say "digital product". Okay.
So you can see here that I've put all three down and I'm making sure that
they're not going past this border.
So actually I have a bit more room here. Okay.
So these are the text clips that I want to show really quickly at the end.
Right now you can see that they're showing for the whole video.
So what I'm going to do is hit one of them let's do info products,
and I'm just going to drag this slider so that it only shows really quickly
after that AKA appears. Okay. So now it's going to appear right at the end,
let's do the same thing for "mini courses".
So drag your slider and make sure it just appears really quickly at the end.
And then lastly,
let's do that for changes to "digital products" and then drag the slider.
And it's just going to appear right at the end. Okay. So now when we view it,
you're going to see that the text is timed to appear really quickly only at
the end. There you go.
So last two to three clips of text appear so fast that your followers are going
to watch your Reel over and over again so that they make sure that they get that
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What are your tips for those? I don't know why I'm so angry.
I feel like I'm yelling. Was that wordy? It was. Views and views.
Yeah. Views. It's kind of confusing, actually. Wait, what did I just say?
Do you remember what I last said? Music on top of my talking... S***.