Instagram users will soon receive pre-made templates to create their own reels.
The Meta-Instagram-owned photo-sharing app is reportedly testing a new feature that will provide templates for reels, allowing creators to create reels in a preset format like other videos. The Forms tool functionality is currently only being rolled out to a small number of beta testers. The new feature will be similar to TikTok’s “Templates” feature, which will allow users to connect their photos or videos in a predefined format. This format was first spotted by marketing manager and social media influencer Josephine Hill. She got early access to the feature and shared some of her impressions in March.
Speaking to Business Insider, she said, “One of the things I was looking for, especially with Instagram Reels, was something like TikTok audio syncing where the clips match the beat of the music perfectly. She tweeted, “Instagram REELS announced a new feature! Use As Template allows users to replace clips with your own and will match timestamps on the template reel. »
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Not only Hill, but a spokesperson for Meta also confirmed this. He is quoted by TechCrunch as saying, “We are testing your ability to create a coil using an existing die from another coil. »
Instagram Reels was introduced in 2020 after TikTok videos took over the internet. The concept of Reels itself is inspired by TikTok, so it offers many similar features like Remix, the ability to reply to comments with Reels and more.
Once the template feature is rolled out, users will be able to copy used formats to other reels and create their own, similar to TikTok’s pre-made templates which allow users to drop their own content into the pre-made format. Specific beta testers with access to this feature can click Use Template while creating a reel and then copy a specific reel.