Templates: a proven structure, then your own edit

Finding templates

Templates has its own tab in the bottom bar, alongside Home, Projects and Me. Inside there is a search field and a row of category chips — All, Thread, Travel, Food, Sale, Memories — plus a scrolling grid of cards. The Home screen also carries a Featured templates row for the ones worth trying first.

Reading a template card

Each card carries two numbers, and both matter more than the artwork:

Slot count tells you how much footage to have ready before you start.

The slot count is the practical number. Eight slots means eight distinct shots — if you only have four clips, pick a five-slot template rather than repeating footage to fill the gaps.

What the categories are for

• Thread — talking-head and explainer structures for social posts built around a single idea.
• Travel — fast, music-led montage pacing. The eight-slot cadence of Travel Beat is designed for beat-matched cutting.
• Food — a build: ingredients, process, hero shot of the finished dish. Slot order matters more here than in any other category.
• Sale — one offer, one number, one call to action. Short by design.
• Memories — slower, photo-friendly pacing, the natural home for Ken Burns moves.

It opens as a real project

This is the part that separates a starting point from a cage. Once a template is open you are on the standard multi-track timeline with every tool available:

• Re-trim any clip; the template's suggested length is a suggestion.
• Delete slots you do not need, or add clips beyond the template's count.
• Swap the transitions or remove them entirely.
• Replace the music, re-time it, and re-cut to your own track.
• Rewrite every text clip, or throw them all away.
• Change export resolution freely — a template does not lock you to a format.

Templates as a teaching tool

If you are new to editing, opening a template and taking it apart is faster than any tutorial. Three specific things to look at:

1. Clip length. Notice that nothing is held as long as beginners hold shots. Around 1.3 seconds in a 3-Second Hook is not an accident.
2. Where the text sits. Every title is inside the safe area, and the hook is on screen almost immediately.
3. How few transitions there are. Most joins are straight cuts, even in the energetic templates.

One-tap auto-fill

Honest scope note: filling every slot in one tap by selecting a batch of clips is on the roadmap. In the shipping build you open a template and place your footage into the timeline yourself — which is slower, but is also why nothing about the result is locked down.

Building your own reusable structure

There is no template-authoring tool in the shipping build, but there is a workflow that gets most of the benefit today.

1. Build the edit once, properly. Get the pacing, titles, transitions and music where you want them.
2. Duplicate the project from the Projects tab before starting the next video.
3. Replace the media clip by clip. The timing, the grade, the title styling and the transitions all stay where they were.
4. Rewrite the text, keep the layout. Editing a title's content does not disturb its position, size or styling.

For anyone posting on a schedule — a weekly series, a product line, a set of listings — this is the difference between a two-hour edit and a twenty-minute one.

What the slot counts teach about pacing

Read down the last column. Every shipping template holds shots for well under two seconds. That is not a stylistic quirk — it is what the format requires, and holding shots two or three times longer is the most common mistake new editors make.

Frequently asked questions