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Introducing Instagram Reels

Posted on August 5, 2020

Today we’re announcing Instagram Reels: a new way to create and discover short, entertaining videos on Instagram.

Reels invites you to create fun videos to share with your friends or anyone on Instagram. Record and edit 15-second multi-clip videos with audio, effects, and new creative tools. You can share reels with your followers on Feed, and, if you have a public account, make them available to the wider Instagram community through a new space in Explore. Reels in Explore offers anyone the chance to become a creator on Instagram and reach new audiences on a global stage.

How it Works

Creating Reels

Select Reels at the bottom of the Instagram camera. You’ll see a variety of creative editing tools on the left side of your screen to help create your reel, including:

Audio: Search for a song from the Instagram music library. You can also use your own original audio by simply recording a reel with it. When you share a reel with original audio, your audio will be attributed to you, and if you have a public account, people can create reels with your audio by selecting “Use Audio” from your reel.
AR Effects: Select one of the many effects in our effect gallery, created both by Instagram and creators all over the world, to record multiple clips with different effects.
Timer and Countdown: Set the timer to record any of your clips hands-free. Once you press record, you’ll see a 3-2-1 countdown, before recording begins for the amount of time you selected.
Align: Line up objects from your previous clip before recording your next to help create seamless transitions for moments like outfit changes or adding new friends into your reel.
Speed: Choose to speed up or slow down part of the video or audio you selected. This can help you stay on a beat or make slow motion videos.

Reels can be recorded in a series of clips (one at a time), all at once, or using video uploads from your gallery. Record the first clip by pressing and holding the capture button. You’ll see a progress indicator at the top of the screen as you record. Stop recording to end each clip.

Sharing Reels

With Reels, you can share with your followers and can be discovered by the huge, diverse Instagram community on Explore.

If you have a Public Account: You can share your reel to a dedicated space in Explore, where it has the chance to be seen and discovered by the wider Instagram community. You can also share your reel with your followers by posting it to your Feed. When you share reels featuring certain songs, hashtags, or effects, your reel may also appear on dedicated pages when someone clicks on that song, hashtag, or effect.
If you have a Private Account: Reels follows your privacy settings on Instagram. You can share to Feed so only your followers can see your reel. People will not be able to use original audio from your reels, and people cannot share your reels with others who don’t follow you.

Once your reel is ready, move to the share screen, where you can save a draft of your reel, change the cover image, add a caption and hashtags, and tag your friends. After you share your reel, it will live on a separate Reels tab on your profile, where people can find the reels you’ve shared. If you also share to your Feed, your reel will appear on your main profile grid, though you have the option to remove it.

Whether you have a public or private account, you can share your reel to your Story, close friends, or in a direct message. If you do so, your reel will behave like a regular Story — it will not be shared to Reels in Explore, it will not appear on your profile, and it will disappear after 24 hours.

Watching Reels

Reels in Explore showcases the best of trending culture on Instagram. Discover an entertaining selection of reels made by anyone on Instagram, in a vertical feed customized for you. If you love a reel, you can easily like, comment or share it with your friends.

You’ll also see some reels with a “Featured” label. If your reel is featured in Explore, you’ll receive a notification. Featured reels are a selection of public reels chosen by Instagram to help you discover original content we hope will entertain and inspire you.

Reels gives people new ways to express themselves, discover more of what they love on Instagram, and help anyone with the ambition of becoming a creator take center stage.

For more information on Reels, visit our Help Center.

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Introducing New Ways to Collaborate and Create with Reels

July 21, 2022

Today, we're announcing new features to Instagram that make it more fun and easy to collaborate, create and share reels.

More Ways to Collaborate with Enhanced Remix Features

We’re expanding our tools for Remix to help enhance the way you tell stories on Instagram when collaborating with your favorite creators and friends, including:

Remix for photos: Photos are core to the Instagram experience. In the coming weeks, you will be able to remix public photos. This gives you limitless inspiration to create your own unique reel.
Expanded Remix layouts: Choose between a green screen, horizontal or vertical split-screen, or picture-in-picture reaction view to add your own video commentary to existing reels.
Add your clip: Have a hot take? Rather than having your remix appear at the same time as the original reel, you can now add your clip after the original so it plays sequentially.

Easily Create Reels With Templates and Dual

We want everyone to be able to easily express their creative ideas, so we’re adding more features that allow you to capture, edit and share them — right from your phone.

Templates: Need a little inspo? Templates allow you to easily create reels by preloading audio and clip placeholders, so you can simply add your own photos or video clips. You can find template ideas by tapping the camera icon on the Reels tab.
Dual: Record content and your reaction at the same time. You can record using your phone’s front and back cameras simultaneously to share another perspective using the Dual feature in the Instagram camera.

New Video Posts on Instagram Will Be Shared as Reels

Since reels offer a more immersive and entertaining way to watch and create videos on Instagram, we’re bringing these creative tools and the full-screen experience to your video posts, too. In the coming weeks, new video posts shorter than 15 minutes will be shared as reels. Videos posted prior to this change will remain as videos and won’t become reels.

Discovery: If you have a public account, your new videos – now reels – may be eligible to be recommended and seen by more people on Instagram. This currently applies to reels that are under 90 seconds long. If your account is private, your reels will still only be shown to your followers.
Profile: We’ll also consolidate the video and Reels tab on your profile, so there will be one home for all of your videos.

We’re always working on ways to improve your Instagram experience. We'll continue to build features that make it easier and more fun to create and share reels on Instagram.

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How to slow down an Instagram video reel

Let's just all agree that everything is better in slow motion; dripping water, bursting bubbles and even Instagram videos. A new feature added to Instagram allows you to create short videos and share them directly within the app. Reels have many settings to make your videos more fun. In this article, we will show you how to slow down the playback of a Reel video. If you want to play videos in reverse order, check out our article How to reverse an Instagram video. nine0003

What is slow motion video?

Slow motion video is essentially video that plays slower than normal. However, when this happens, you start to notice every frame of the video being played. That's why it's very important to record slow motion video in high definition. The higher the frame rate, the more you can slow down the video without noticeable stutter.

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Slow-mo lets you make funny videos, turning everyday things into something special. Reels The idea behind the slow motion feature is to give users a chance to spice things up a bit with their Reels videos. The best part of the feature is how it integrates with audio. nine0003

Reels allows you to add music from your gigantic library. But the problem with slow motion is that it slows down the audio to a deep stretch. However, Instagram solved this problem by increasing the audio speed during recording.

So when you slow down the video, the audio returns to normal 1x speed!

Related: How to slow down video on Snapchat

How to record slow motion video on Instagram Reels

Record slow motion video on Instagram Reels is very easy. There are two playback speed options when slowing down a video: 0.3x and 0.5x. Play around with these speeds to see which one works best for your video. nine0003

To record slow motion video on Reels, first launch the Instagram app and swipe right to go to the camera page. Alternatively, you can click the "History" button in the top left corner.

Now click "Reels" on the bottom bar next to "Story".

When recording slow motion video on Reels, you need to set the speed before recording video. To do this, click the "Speed" button on the left panel. Now choose how much you want to slow down the video. nine0003

If you want to add music, click the "Audio" button on the left panel. Select the song you want to add.

Now go ahead and record a video by pressing the record button. You will notice that the added song plays much faster than usual.

To preview the video, click the arrow button to go to the next page. Here you can see how the video slowed down, but the audio remained normal.

How to record only part of the video in slow motion?

You don't have to record Reels videos in one sitting. You can record videos as short burst clips. These clips can then be joined together to create a complete video. Using this process, you can record one clip at a slower playback setting and the rest at the normal 1x setting. This will only slow down part of your video and the rest will play at normal speed. nine0003

Check out our article below on how to record clips for Reels videos.

► How to Record Multiple Reel Clips

Now you know how to slow down video for Instagram Reels. If you have any questions feel free to contact us in the comments below.

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Instagram has announced Remix, a feature similar to TikTok Duet that allows users to create a new Reels video alongside an existing one. While Remix is usually useful for harmonizing or parodying existing short videos, you can also pull off some pretty creative and funny replies. If you are wondering how to use the Instagram Reels Remix feature, read to the end to know everything about it. nine0003

Remix Reels on Instagram

According to Instagram, Remix is enabled by default for new reels only. As a result, you will have to manually enable remix for old videos if you want other creators to remix your old content. With that out of the way, let's move on to the Reels remixing steps.

Instagram Reels Remix

1. Open a video in Instagram Reels either from the Reels tab or from the user's profile. Click on the three-dot vertical menu in the top right corner and select "Remix this drum" from the list of options that appears. nine0003

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video. You have effects, timer, retouching and other tools available to use while recording video.

3. You can use the Instagram Toolkit to edit your videos however you like. For example, you can press the microphone button to record a quick voice-over. nine0003

4. When you're done with all the changes, click the "Next" button and share the post after writing a caption and choosing a cover image.

Enable remix for old drums

As mentioned before, you cannot remix old videos by default. You won't see the "Remix this reel" option as it's missing from these videos. Hence, you will have to manually enable it so that you or others can remix it. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open the old coil and click on the vertical menu of three dots in the lower right corner. From here, click "Enable Remix" and that's it. You have now allowed others to remix your old video.

Disable Instagram Reels Remix

If you don't want others to remix your Instagram Reels, you can disable this feature. You can turn off remixing for specific videos, or turn off the feature entirely for all of your videos. Check out the steps for both options below. nine0003

Disable remix for individual reels

1. With the Reels video open, click on the vertical three-dot menu and click the Disable Remix button.

2. Instagram will now show you a warning before disabling the remix feature.