As the social media behemoth continues to fight with TikTok, Instagram today announced that it is offering improvements to its Instagram Reels templates to make it even simpler for users to produce interesting short-form videos.
A new “Template Browser” that the company is introducing will enable customers to browse templates by categories. You can search through saved templates or audios, as well as browse templates based on what’s popular and suggested.
By hitting the “create” button on the home page and choosing the “Instagram Reels” option, you can access the new browser. After opening your camera gallery by tapping the photographs in the lower left corner of the screen, you must tap “Templates.” The Template Browser is also accessible from the Reels Tab by tapping the camera symbol and then “Templates.”
When exploring Instagram Reels, if you come across a Template you like, you can hit the “Use Template” button to begin. By selecting the “Template by” button in the reel, you can also view examples of how other people have applied templates. This will direct you to a website with examples of individuals using the template in inventive ways. It’s important to note that TikTok, with its themes and effects, offers a similar concept on its app.
Instagram also claims to be improving the experience of creating and editing templates. The audio, quantity of clips, length of clips, and AR effects are now automatically included to your Instagram Reels when you create from a template. Instagram intends to begin automatically adding text and transitions that were present in the original Reel in the coming weeks. Users will be able to alter any preloaded element and add or remove clips from templates. They will also be able to change the timing of specific clips.
“Instagram Reels templates can get you started in just a few taps, whether you’re joining in on a trend or want to create a fun reel to express your creativity,” Instagram noted in a blog post. “We’re constantly looking for ways to make Reels better. To make creating and sharing content on Instagram simpler and more enjoyable, we’ll continue to improve the Reels templates feature.
A month ago, Instagram finally began allowing users to download user-posted Reels so they could share them outside of the app. The new functionalities follow that move. By hitting the share symbol and then choosing the Download option, users can accomplish this. Since it first introduced this function, TikTok has grown in popularity as more people view its short films outside of the platform.
