DaVinci Resolve for Busy People: The Easy Way to Make Instagram Reels

1. Introduction: Hi and welcome to the DaVinci Resolve for busy people editing series. Today we'll be learning the easy way to create a custom Instagram reel for multiple uses. My name is Jason Georgiades. I'm a professional video editor. I have a master's degree in filmmaking from CalArts and worked in Hollywood as a professional editor for Vice, Warner Brothers, and The Hollywood Reporter. In that time, I've also produced and edited two feature films with commercial distribution from 1091 and Gravitas Ventures. One of the biggest problems I face as a video content creator is making Instagram reels or reels in general to promote my projects. As many of you know, as a busy person, I just don't have time to create hundreds of different variations of video reels to promote my projects. So I create one customizable reel, that means all I have to do is adjust a few settings in that one customizable reel to generate many different versions over and over again. This course is for busy people looking to save time making a simple, professional video reel that can be modified to generate multiple versions to promote your film, business, or personal hobby. By the end of this course, you will learn how to create a customizable, elegant, and effective video reel for Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, or Instagram. That will be your class project. As an added bonus, Rosetta will show you how to upload your reel to Instagram and some quick tips on how to add music and hashtags to improve the visibility of your reels. We'll be using a simple step-by-step guide that requires you to follow along with each demo using video files we provide to you. Later, you can simply drop in and add your own video to this template in order to create your own custom reel. All you need to get started is a laptop or a desktop computer with a working version of DaVinci Resolve for Mac or Windows. If you're ready to begin, let's get started. 2. Project at a Glance: Great. The first stage will be to choose and add our footage. Remember to download that sample footage in the project and resources section if you want to follow along exactly like this demo. The second step will be to add our color transparencies. The third step would be to add text. From there, you can mix and match any of those elements to make hundreds of different types of reels from that one customizable real. This is the sample project that I've provided to you in the project and resources section of the Skillshare tab. I'm just going to go ahead and play it back using the space bar to get an idea of what we're trying to create in this course. Great. As you can see, there's a few different elements that we're going to need to manipulate and create. Each of them are customizable. Also, keep in mind there is no audio and the audio will be added later using the Instagram application. But for now, all we want to do is work with the video elements. In the next lesson, I'm going to show you how to import this sample footage into your project. 3. Importing Sample Footage: Go ahead and create a new project and label it whatever you would like. I've labeled it Matcha Demo, and I have imported the sample footage into this project. In order to do that, go ahead and download the sample footage that I provided for you in the project and resources section of the Skillshare page. All you have to do is go into the Media Pool, right-click, and import media in order to get that footage into your media pool. 4. Setup Your Resolution: In this lesson, we're going to set up a project to display correctly in Instagram. Since most people look at their phones vertically, we want to make sure that DaVinci understands that and we also want to make sure that the reel is displaying correctly, as people watch the footage on their phone. Let's check it out. The first step will be to create a new timeline to match the specifications of Instagram, TikTok, Facebook reels, or anything that has a vertical style format. I'll head over to my media pool, right-click, and under Timeline, Create a New Timeline. A new box will appear, and I'll go ahead and uncheck Use Project Settings. This will allow me to customize my timeline. Name your timeline here, whatever you like. Then I'll just select Format, and then under Timeline Resolution, I'll change this to 1080 by 1920. That means that our Canvas or final output for our reel will be 1080 pixels wide by 1920 pixels high. This will match the vertical orientation of a cell phone where most people will be viewing this content. Also, make sure that under Mismatched Resolution, we have Scale entire image to fit selected. I'll go ahead and click "Create". There we go. As you can see, there is a vertical canvas now for us to work in, in order to ensure that our output will properly match a cell phone for display. 5. Adding Footage to Timeline: So next up we need to add some footage to our Canvas. Again, feel free to use your own footage if you don't want to work with the exercise files. What's nice about this reel style is that it allows us to use footage shot horizontally, meaning we can still preserve the frame we shot, but we're essentially just stacking those frames one on top of each other. I really hate when I'm shooting something in a horizontal format, and then I have to re-frame for a vertical iPhone display. This method allows us to preserve the framing while also respecting the vertical format of the phone's display. So let's check it out. I'll just double-click our sample clip to have a look at what we're working with here. We have a few clips here, and I need to choose which video will be on the top portion of the reel, middle, and bottom. I think I'd like to start with the matcha can opening, then mixing, and then pouring into the cup, like our demo. So I think that order will be a nice narrative flow in order to tell the story. So let's start with opening the can. I'll scrub to the top of the clip and type I for in, to place our first edit point. Then I'll scrub or play back to reach the end of the clip. I'll hit Spacebar to stop playback. Then I'll use my arrow keys to step frame backwards to find the very end of this clip. I'm using the left arrow key and just hitting it a few times to get to that last frame exactly where I want it. Doing this is also a really great practice as an editor to dial in on specific frames. I use the shortcut all of the time. So, I'm just cycling back-and-forth using the arrow keys until I get to where I want to go. Now, I'll hit the O key to place my outpoint. You should see a white bar that now highlights the particular section we want to put down onto our timeline. If I place my cursor over the image now, you can see that two little options appear here. You may have seen them before. That gives us the option of pulling down either the audio or video if we want to use just one or the other and not both at the same time. There is no audio for this demo, so let's go ahead and left click, hold, and drag down on just the video icon, to pull this clip down onto our timeline. You can place it anywhere for now, but it's ideal to have it start at the beginning of the timeline just for organizational purposes and cleanliness. Let's go ahead and drag our clip to the front of the timeline to start working with it. Next, we need to position the clip so that it appears on the upper part of the frame. I'll head over to the Inspector tab on the right-hand side. If it's not already open, just click the small tab here and it'll open up. I'll make sure the clip is active by left clicking it once on the timeline. It will appear highlighted in red, and that's how we know it's selected in order for us to modify that clip. Once that's done, I'll enter these values in the inspector. For zoom, I'll put the value up to 1.250 and for the exposition negative, that's minus, so minus 22. For Y, we're going to put 2125. Now that we have our top clip in place, let's get the other two in place as well. I'll double-click my original footage here in the media pool. Then I'll use that same in and out method to pull my second video clip. So let's go to the clip that we want to use here of the mixing. I'll press I to set my inpoint and O to set my outpoint. Remember to use some arrow keys here to pinpoint the exact frames you want to start and end the clip with more accurately. Looks great. So let's go ahead and again, just drag the video down, not the audio or both by left clicking on the video icon and dragging this clip down right on top of the first clip, like this, like a little pancake. This looks really great. I'm not going to change the position of the clip at all. Don't even worry about where it is. We'll fix that and adjust that later. Now for the third clip, I'm going to use the same method. I'll press I to set my inpoint, O to set my outpoint. Again, I'm using the arrow keys left and right to pinpoint the frames more accurately. Go ahead and drag the video down by left clicking on the video icon and dragging this clip down right on top of the second clips. We've got like three little pancakes here. The second clip we dragged down should appear in the middle here, which is fine, that's where we want it. But the third clip needs to be adjusted. That's the third clip that we put on top of that second clip. So let's adjust that clip. Make sure it's highlighted as well. It needs to be in red as you can see here, and go into the inspector. So for zoom, we'll set this to 1.18. For the X we'll use 16 and for Y let's use negative or minus 2069. Just make sure that when you enter these values you are also pressing the Return or Enter key in order to execute the values for lack of a better term to make sure that they're actually registering. So everything is playing back pretty good. I'm just going to slide the clips to the left, just to stack them one on top of the other. It's a pretty good way to just see all the clips in order. Don't worry, we're going to trim these up and make them look really, really slick in the following lessons. But if I just play it back, you can see it actually looks pretty decent on its own without any of the things we're actually going to do to it. But, if you wait a few more lessons, we're going to make this look really, really clean. If you're having problems manipulating the clips, you may even want to double-click the clips in order to make sure they're selected when you're doing these transform control modifications. But we're going to need to do a little bit more to make it pop in the very next lesson. The hardest part of this process is really just making sure things are evenly spaced apart. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it will be slightly different when you're using your own footage. Just make sure that you're taking the time to play with these X, Y, and zoom values just a little bit to make it the way you want it to be. I've re-framed a little bit here to make sure things are nice and even. Again, please just take time at this stage to get it just the way you like it in terms of spacing for your footage. 6. Freeze Framing: Picking up where we left off, I have placed all three clips on top of each other, as you can see in our timeline below. Again, we're going to worry about trimming them and making sure they're perfect later. If you notice, as I scrub through the timeline, it's about six seconds long, which is about right for an Instagram or TikTok, Facebook, reel length, that's pretty good. Six seconds is a really good length to have when you're working with reals as just a quick pointer. People's attention spans are very minimal these days. We tried to keep these videos as quick as possible when we're creating the reel. What we're going to do now is we need to focus on making sure that these clips will freeze at each location so that they'll freeze and text and color will come in. The way I'm going to do that is I'm actually going to use the right arrow key and I'm going to punch it 12 times 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. By doing that, you'll notice I've actually gone 12 frames. That's why I love using the left and right arrow keys so much. I'm going to make sure that the timing of our real stays consistent by actually knowing I've went 12 frames at a time as I do this freeze-frame. What we're going to do in this lesson is add the freeze frames. What I want to have happen here is on this first clip, the top clip, it'll play for about 12 frames. Then it'll freeze. We're going to want to do that for each subsequent video clip in order to get the style that we're going for. Make sure all of your clips are stacked up just like that. If you took our busy beginner video editing course, you know, my favorite Da Vinci resolve shortcut is Shift Z. Sometimes students will have their timeline zoomed in so much they can't see what they're doing. If you ever get lost. Remember, Shift Z is your best friend, Shift Z. Shift Z will allow us to look at the entire timeline so we know what we're doing and we have a good bird's-eye view of everything. So it makes sure all the footage, again is stacked up nice and neat against this left side of the bar starting at zero. This is the beginning of our clips. I'm going to go ahead and step 12 frames again, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. That's awesome. We're going to work with this first footage right here. What I'm going to do is I'm going to zoom in by pressing "Command Plus", it looks like an equal sign here, but on Mac or Windows, just make sure you're using "Command Plus". I'm going to select B for blade. I'm going to blade my first clip at that point, at that 12th frame. You follow me? Great. If you're with me so far, I'm going to use A to get back to my arrow because we want to switch it back from B. B is blade, A is arrow. I want you to get used to these shortcuts because they really save a lot of time. I'm going to select the second half of the clip that we bladed from the first clip. What I'm going to do here now is I am going to right-click "Change clip speed" and I'm going to freeze frame this option here. Then I'm going to click "Change." Watch what happens now if I play back the clip. It'll go 12 frames and freeze on the 12th frame. Excellent, that's exactly what we want. I'm really lost worry where I'm I. Shift Z, and we're back out. Let's do the same freeze-frame technique with our second clip now. In this case, we want it to pause a little bit after our freeze-frame in our first clip. At that blade point Command Plus, I'm going to go another 12 frames. Well, how many is 12? Well, we know because we just use the left and right arrow keys. Let's get that scrubber play head back to that blade point. I will count 12 frames to the right by pressing the right arrow key. Ready? Here we go, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Great. Now we know that's 12 frames. I'll go and click B for blade. To get the razor blade active, I will cut right at the 12th frame. I will select A for arrow. I will right-click on this second clip, change clip speed, freeze frame, and hit Change. Let's have a look. Looks pretty good. This may seem really fast to you, but for reels, you want to make them fairly quick. It may seem fast. Again, feel free to play with this if you want it to be 13 frames long or 14, 15, go for it. I just think this works the best for what I think will work best for reels, just to get information going. Lately, I've heard people can't even watch videos past three seconds. I really try to make these quick when I'm putting out these videos so 12 is a pretty good number to go with. Great. Let's head to the third clip and modify that so we can freeze-frame that out. I will put my play-head right at that second blade marker, right here in our second clip and I will count 12 frames 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. B for blade, A for arrow. To get back to our arrow tool, I'll right-click on sample footage. The second half of the clip I will hit "Change clip speed". Freeze frame. Let's play it back. Now, all three clips are freezing, exactly the way we'd like them to. 7. Adding Color Elements: The next thing we're going to want to do for our real is we're going to want to add those really nifty color mattes to each of these videos that every time each one freezes, a different color will appear. How do we do that? Well, I'm going to hit ''Shift Z'' just to get a clear look of what we're looking at here. You'll notice that we have our freeze frames here ready to go and we just need to make some room for some handy-dandy color mattes. Let's go ahead and make some room for those. What I'll do is I'm going to click and drag to select these top two tracks. With those selected, I'm just going to hold down Shift and move them up one track. As you can see, this V2 is blank now. The reason I'm holding down Shift is to make sure that as I move the clips up on the timeline, they don't shift around. Shift allows it to snap or lock in place so that our beautiful timing is not affected at all. We need to do this one more time. What I'll go ahead and do is click and drag. I'm a click drager. I can't help it, but I really love it. I will hold down Shift and drag up on that third line. Now what we have is the sandwich effect. We've got two blank tracks, actually a third on top for our third color matte. But that's exactly what we want here. At this stage, we're going to want to add some color mattes when the clip freezes. Let's work with the first one. I'm going to go ahead and go into the effects tab, which is right up here. Let's hop left. I'm going to go to generators, as you can see here on the left, and I'm going to scroll down until I see solid color. These are all elements you can just drag directly onto the timeline and that's what we're going to do here. First, I'm going to position my play head, this little red marker, right on my cut point for the first clip. We're going to start working with this first module clip right here. I'm going to drag solid color as an element onto my blank V2. I'm clicking, dragging, and holding, and then I'm releasing my mouse click in order to place that solid color there. I'm going to delete this and show you one more time. I'm clicking down on Solid Color holding down on my mouse, left-clicking and dragging. I'm still holding and it will snap to my play head right here and I'll let go. Let's check it out. It looks all funky. What's going on here? Well, it's because our solid color is black and we don't want that. We're going to want a different color. In order to modify this color, I'm going to head into the inspector and double-click just to make sure that you've selected it and making sure that it's highlighted in red. I will go to generator, not settings. I'm going to generator here and you'll see the color matte, color here can make it whatever you like. Let's go ahead and click the ''Color swatch'', I believe they call it. This will open up another dialog box to select the color that you want to use. You can use anything you like. For this maybe we use a green or a neon-green. Have fun with it, do what you'd like for this demo. We'll use a little neon green. We can always adjust them later so don't get too precious with this right now. I'll click ''Okay'' and I'll then go into settings this time. I'll head down and right here you'll see an option for opacity. Meaning how transparent or opaque you want this to be. Right now it's totally covering our image, so we don't want that. I'm going to drop the opacity down and watch what happens. We're starting to see our image come through a little bit more. At this stage sometimes what I'll do is I'll go back to the generator and adjust this color a little bit to fine-tune it because what's happening is we're mixing that color matte with the image itself. It might create a new special color for you there that you may not like, so feel free to adjust it by going back and forth into the generator setting here. This looks pretty good. I'm happy with that. We need to add two more now. Let's go ahead and do that. Well, that was pretty cool, although we're not using it for this demo. Let's go ahead and use the same tactic. Now I'm going to go to the second edit point because now we're going to add a second color to our second clip. I've got solid color ready to go here. I'm going to left-click, hold, and drag right to that freeze frame point. What's happening here? Doesn't look too good. Things are disappearing, no problem. With the solid color selected, sometimes I double-click just to make sure, I'll double-click that solid color. Maybe we're going to change that to let's try a little red. How about that? I'm going to select ''Okay''. But it's also covering our top image, what are we going to do? Well, first, let's play with the opacity to make sure that this thing is coming through okay. I'm going to go into settings on the right-hand side and I'm going to change our opacity to 30. That looks pretty good. But as you can see, it's also covering our top image. We don't want that, so how do we fix that? Well, we crop it. At the top, you'll see an option for cropping. I'm going to crop the top of this because all we want is red to appear as you can see. If you have to crop the bottom, you can. But feel free to play with these settings to get them exactly the way you want. Sometimes I'll Zoom in a little bit on this timeline, I'm just zooming into see this little color separation here just to adjust it just a little bit. You can actually click and drag to the left and right these values to get them very accurate, which I'm doing here. That looks pretty good to me, nice and even, and we have our red color. Again, if you want to go back into generator and adjust this color a little bit, you can by clicking that and just playing a little bit with it. Feel free to do that. By clicking ''Okay'', it looks pretty good to me. Let's head to the third color matte now. I've got solid color ready to go. I will hold down, left-click, and drag it to the right and place it on that V6, is what I've got right now right at that third edit point. You can either drag it directly to that edit point because we have snapping turned on it. DaVinci knows that's where you want to go probably and it guesses correctly. I usually like to go with the grain and work with these types of things that DaVinci has active for use at work with it. It has snapped to my third edit point. If you're having trouble and it accidentally doesn't do the right thing or place the color exactly where you want it. Just I like to position my play head where I'd like that clip to go, in this case, it would be the edit point itself, and I will drag my solid color to snap to that playhead. This is our final color. Let's adjust it. Here we go. Under color, I'll double-click it, make sure it's active. I'll slide this to the right to get our active colors here, maybe we use purple. How does that sound? Or yellow, maybe. Select ''Okay''. I go into the settings, I'll change the opacity down here under composite. Once again, the issue is this yellow generator is covering both of our colors which we do not want. Do you remember how to adjust this? Pause the video if you think you've got the answer, it's just like in class quiz right now. If you think you know how to adjust this, pause the video and resume when you think you've got the right answer. If you guessed cropping in order to adjust this third and final color matte , you are correct. I will crop the top of this down until it looks good. I will adjust it slightly by zooming in. You can use the zoom function here. I will just cover up that black just to make sure it looks nice and clean and there you have it. Again, don't worry about the length, these little ugly tails, which we'll fix in a later demo. We just want to make sure that this is working correctly. If I play back the clip, I'm actually going to press ''P''. P is a great shortcut for seeing the whole Canvas playful screen. I'll hit ''P'' and space bar, pretty cool, and Escape to get out of that. It's looking really good. Again, you can play with these timings from the last lesson. You can make them 15 frames, 20 frames. But for our fast attention-seeking Instagram lovers, I like to make sure everything appears pretty fast. Congratulations on putting these color mattes. We're almost there. We're going to add some text in the next lesson, and we'll see you back here for that. 8. Adding Text: Welcome back. What we're going to do right now is add our text elements to our reel, and what we want them to spell out is organic milled matcha. That's what we've come up for this demo today. So we need to add some text to each of these blocks, which will take a little bit of modifying. In order to do that, I will need to add them as elements to each of these blocks. I'm just going to drag this audio bar down. I'm clicking and holding and dragging just to give me a little bit more room. Again, I'm working on a laptop, I work on a laptop very often. So screen real estate is really important to me. So because we're not going to be doing any audio. I'll just highlight this bar and just drag it down to give me a little bit more room because we're going to place our text elements right up here. We're going to start by going into the effects. If it's not already open, it should be from the last lesson, but go to effects and then titles, and we're going to use a clever, neat little DaVinci text effect called random right on, and as you can see, it's located down here. I really like it, it looks pretty slick and clean. Also, if you're having trouble finding it, go ahead and click the search icon and click and type random right on and you'll see it right here. It's a element just like every other element we've pulled onto our timeline. So in that case, I will click hold and drag it right onto our timeline, onto V7, and I will let go here, and if I play it back, you can see I hit Spacebar. It's appearing here, but that's awful and we don't want that. We want to edit this and make sure it's appearing at the top of our element here. In addition to this, it's in the totally wrong place. I want it to start right here at our edit point. Again, if you're too zoomed in, I'm going to repeat this over and over again, that Shift Z is your best friend. I want the text to come in right at that first edit point, because when it stops on the first train, text should appear. So I will click on our random right on element here, drag it to the left, so it slams into our play head or red line here. I'll click Spacebar, it's not coming in exactly how I'd like it to, but we will adjust that. We've dragged this on, it looks pretty good. Don't worry about the timing just yet. Let's just get it in position and make some simple modifications. So the first word we're going to write is organic. I'll head over to the inspector if it's closed, just make sure it's selected. You'll see it highlighted in white, and it's also selected down here. I'll double-click it just to make sure I've got it activated, and under the title control, I will just enter organic and for the font, let's go ahead and use Georgia bold. Let's go ahead and locate that everything is in alphabetical order, so pretty easy to find. Georgia and bolt, and I'm going to do a playback just to see what this looks like, not bad, but we want it to appear up here. So what do you think we need to do? We need to adjust the size and also the position. We can do that by first going into these settings and adjusting the position just like any other element. So in this case, what I'm doing is I'm left clicking the number and sliding it to the right. I'm clicking holding and dragging to the right, and I'm seeing the changes occur in real-time as I do that. I'm going to do the same thing with the Y, and we've got it in the middle there. So again, I'm just left or right click dragging the number in order to get it exactly where I want it now, it's too tiny, so let's go into the title, and I'm going to left-click and drag the number here to make it bigger or smaller, or feel free to use the size slider to make it as big or small as you want it to be. Obviously coming off the page here. So again, head back into your settings. I'm going to move it to the left by cyclic sliding and dragging to the left. Organic, that looks pretty good. I don't know if you can tell, but the texts itself is a little light. It's actually not coming through bright enough. So one of the things I like to tell students to do is change the composite mode to add, and it actually makes it a little bit brighter. You can't really tell, but it really makes the color that you're using pop, and again, feel free to change the color if you like. Here, you can go into title and change it to red, pink, blue, whatever you like, and that's actually part of how we're going to change each reel to make them different every time we output a new reel using this template that we're creating. So let's go ahead and check this out. I'm going to play back. Not bad, but I think it comes in a little late. I don't know about you, but I think it's a little late. So what I'll do is I'll just slide it a little bit over to the left. I'm just click, left-click and slide dragging it to the left. It's pretty good, that's a little nicer. Another great way to do this actually is if you zoom in and you want it to appear right at a specific point, I will just move and scrub my playhead to the point I want it to start, and I'll just drag my element right to that play head like I like to do. So let's play it. Wow, pretty deep. We've got organic. It's like a little offset to me, so I'm going to go back into Settings. Let's drag it a little bit to the left. Organic. Great. All we have to do is do this two more times for the bottom letters. So let's go ahead and do that. I am zoomed in. I don't like that. So Shift Z to back right out again, and I'm going to slide on another random right on, and what I'm going to do is first position my playhead to the point where I would like it to start, and I think I'll just position my playhead a little bit to the left of this second color elements. I'll drag it random right on. Over here are our title element is ready to go. But we have a problem. Do I have to do all of this all over again? So one of the things that can save you a lot of time when you're formatting text is just copy and pasting the text element you just formatted in order to save all those beautiful settings that you used. So one of the things that can save you a lot of time now is just duplicating this text element in order to save all of the beautiful formatting options that we apply to it like the font, the color, or the compositing. But we just have to adjust a little bit of the positioning. So in order to save us time, this is a great little DaVinci hack I like to use all the time. I'm going to just duplicate this text element by clicking down on option. So I'm holding down the Option button and I'm left clicking and dragging up and letting go, and that will duplicate this element. You could do that with any element actually, you just have to option click and drag them to delete it and do it one more time for you. So I'm selecting the text element. I'm clicking and holding down on option. I am, then left-click and holding on the element and dragging it up and it will duplicate. You can let go of the option key. Conversely, you could just add the random right on feature again. In order to edit this at your own commanded, it will take you a little bit more time to do that, to customize it again to match this other specification from the original text element. But both work the same way. I like to save time as you know, because I'm a busy person. So again, option click drag up in order to get the same duplicated item. So what's beautiful about that is all I have to do is adjust one setting in order to get our text element in the middle of the video. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going with this highlighted, I've double-clicked the random right on Element 2. I'm going to manipulate our y setting and just drag it down by sliding my y value to the left, and that way we've preserved all those beautiful same settings from that original text file, and I need to do is just change the text itself. So I'll go into title, I will type in milled, and of course, it doesn't look the same as the organic. So feel free to go into settings, and in position I will click and drag to the right on our x positioning. You could even make it bigger if you'd like. By going into title and adjusting the size, settings, clicking and dragging to the left here. We've got organic milled, ready to go. We need to make a third. I'm actually going to adjust this and make it a little bit smaller. I don't like that. There we go. I'm just flip-flopping back and forth between these to make them look a little slicker. So let's position this because we don't want milled to come in at the same time as organic. So let's just slide it over a little bit. It's pretty good. I'm not too picky with these to be honest with you. Because I think all the information just needs to be delivered as quickly as possible when you're doing these. So that within, as you can see a second, we're getting a lot of visual information going. Great. At this stage, we're going to need to add the last text element. Do you remember how to duplicate this text element and manipulate it? Do you remember how to duplicate this text element and easy hack, pause the video now and see if you can remember. So if you guessed hold down option, click and drag up, you guessed correctly, and that will duplicate this second text elements so that we can just manipulate the third very easily. So I will go ahead and I will drag this third element to the right, and with that selected, I will pull down the clip to the third, pull down the text to the third image by clicking and dragging to the left, and I will go into title and I will click. I'll go into title and I will select the word and delete it and put the word matcha instead. It looks pretty good. I think the milled is a little off centered, so I'm just going to go into random right on Element 2 and position it to the right, that looks pretty good to me. So let's have a look. That's pretty neat. I think I'm going to slide our Matcha over just a little bit. As you can see it maybe too far. So how do we fix that? Well, one of the ways I do that is with the timeline selected, I will use the left arrow key to step frame a little bit back to where I'd like it to start, and simply click hold and drag snap it to the red playhead, and let's have a look. That looks pretty cool. So in the next lesson, we will play a little bit with the timing to make sure this thing looks really, really spectacular and we'll see you there. 9. Trimming Footage: Really great job getting all of our elements in place. We've got great texts, we've got the color mattes, we've got all the video there. Right now, all we need to do is a little bit of housekeeping. We got to clean up these little tails are super ugly. What we're going to do is to determine when we want our reel to end the timing of the clip. I think anywhere 6-10 seconds is pretty good. Let's dial in on that timing in order to figure out when we want our clip to finally end this beautiful formatting that we've done here. On the timeline, you'll notice that the numbers exist as you play through the clip. I press Space-bar 3, 4, 5, 6. Maybe we want it to end around the sixth-second mark. I think that that's pretty good. I don't think people really watch beyond 5, 6 maybe even 10 seconds. I think six is a good compromise because remember we're going to have to add that end card with the call to action, the website or whatever title card you're going to want to use at the end of your video. Let's make sure all of our elements here and on the sixth-second mark, super-duper, easy to do. I'm just going to zoom in by pressing command plus to get a little closer to the play head position. I'm just going to click, slide and drag all of my elements to snap to that six-second location. If you're having trouble getting to that six-second location, remember to manipulate the left and right arrow keys, use them to get to that six-second mark. I'm just using left and right-to-step frame. I'll take my first element here, select it, left-click, and drag it to my play head. Great. Number 2, drug. Third clip, drag. Fourth element, drag. I'm not seeing this very well, so I'll just zoom out. Command Minus, I will drag, and it's beautiful because these are freeze frames can be an infinite amount of time. It's a really, really great thing to use from time to time. I'm not seeing the end of this clip. Could use this little slider bar at the bottom as well to get to the right and left of your clips. Drag that over. Let's drag this solid color to the right and this one to the left, Shift Z and voila, we have a really nice looking. Good. Now, you'll notice that the matcha disappeared and that's okay. This might happen on your cut, but it's not going to be a problem because we're actually going to trim this a little bit more when we come to the end card and final stage of your reel. Way to go, way to make it nice and clean. We'll see you in the next lesson to finish this all up. 10. The Compound Clip: One of the things if you haven"t noticed already that can get crazy on your timeline, is just how many elements gets stacked together to create something unique. As you can see in our project, We've got over 6-7 elements all stacked on top of each other. It"s a little hard to see things. It"s a little messy. What we"re going to do is create something called a compound clip. What this does is collapsed all of those elements into one clip that can be easily manipulated. Let"s have a look. Welcome back. We've got everything we need ready to go. But the problem is there"s a lot of floating elements here. It"s super, ugly, super messy, a lot of elements here to manipulate. A really great way to consolidate all of these clips into one is by creating something called a compound clip. That allows us to treat all of these elements as one. It"s almost like taking all of your pancakes and making one massive pancake with it. In order to do that, what we"ll do is we"ll click "Shift Z." That"s our little shortcut to make sure we've see all of our footage here. Then I will press "Command A" to select all of our clips. I love compound clipping and you"ll see why. I will right-click now anywhere on these clips, anywhere. Just not in the gray. Again "Command A" right-click on any of the clips and produce a new compound clip. It will ask you to name this. You can name it V1 or Banana Rameau or whatever you like, and I will click "Create." You"ll notice what happened now is all of your clips have stacked together into one nice clean clip. I"ll hit "Spacebar." Look at that. Everything is there. But they"re just consolidated in a very nice clean way. You might be wondering, what if I need to manipulate this again or change the colors? Well, check this out, in the media pool you have your V1. Now if you double-click it, you will notice nothing"s appearing. You actually have to right-click this little icon and select Open in Timeline. There you have it. One of the features I like to turn on from time-to-time is the ability to switch back and forth between timeline. Make sure if you"re into that, to just select this button here, and make sure under Timeline View Options that this first option is selected. What you"ll see is V1 listed here. If I double-click our Match a Demo sequence just at our media pool, double-clicking that you"ll see the two act of timelines working together so we can swap back and forth very handy. You can see now you"re looking inside of this mastodon clip here. You"re looking inside this big beefy guy here. Any changes you make now to this will appear in this compound clip. For instance, if I change, let"s say I change the solid color to purple. I click "Okay", you will see that reflected in the compound clip. Don"t worry your changes are there. They"re just gift wrapped for you so that you can work with it easier. Why would we want to do this? Well, we want to cut down on the clutter of your timeline. Again, organization is always key when you"re editing. But also to add really cool, interesting transitions if you"re using other elements. In the next lesson, we"re going to add our final elements. We"re going to add our end card and a really awesome transition to make this all come together. Stay tuned and we"ll see right back here. 11. Create End Card and Transition: Congrats on making it this far. We've got everything looking really, really great. We just need to add an end card and a really fancy dandy transition. Super simple to do, especially if you're a busy person. We'll get started by adding a solid color to our timeline located in the generators. We use this earlier when we were making our mats. I will just go ahead and left-click, drag this onto our timeline and anywhere is fine. I like to change this to a cream color. I've got it pre-selected here but feel free to use anything you like. I'll click "Okay", and we need to figure out when this thing is supposed to come in. We set around the five second mark. I'm just going to adjust this a little bit. I'm going to see where I'd like this to end. We had a little text drop off from our compound clip. I'm going to left key-frame to maybe that position at the five-second 10 framework. I will drag our solid color block over our V1 clip, so what should happen here is the compound clip will play, and then hit right to the solid color. That's what we want. Shift Z, and you can see our full compound clip. Keep in mind that yes, I have overwritten some data here, meaning I have positioned our solid color over the compound clip, essentially eliminating some of the information. However, all of that clip data is still there, so don't worry. It didn't go anywhere. At this stage, we've got our solid color. Let's add a text block, something nice and fancy for our call to action. I'll go into Titles under the Effects tab here, Titles. Search for text box. Nice, I really like this one. It's really nice and slick, so I like to use this a lot. I will left-click and drag it like every other element in DaVinci onto our timeline and put that on the V2. Let's have a look here. Oh, nice, but I can't see a darn thing, so let's go ahead and edit these elements. We will go into the title, making sure that this is selected or double clicking to make sure it's selected. I will change the title to www.matchademo.com great but it's all white we don't want that maybe we want black. Let's go under color, right here under color. I will select black. Just drag this slider to the right. There you go and click "Okay". That's half the battle, because we need this white text box to turn black as well. Well, guess what? Under the Box Color and Shape tool here if I just click this little arrow, it will give me options to change that text box color super handy and here we go. It's white, I will click the white area, which will open our modifier for color. I will just slide this to the right and click "Okay". There we go. You can actually change the font for this as well if you don't like Open Sans, feel free to use anything that you'd like that you think looks slick. We'll go with Palatino for this one. Really, really nice. At this stage, if we play back our image, it's a little harsh; don't you think? It just cuts to this title card a little harshly. What can we do to smooth this out? Well, maybe we can add a little video transition, and this is the whole point of adding the compound clip. We can't add a transition to all of these elements because it would get really messy. We consolidate all of the clips into one so that all of the elements will get treated the same. In order to do that, I will go into Video Transitions, and I will search for Noise Dissolve, and you'll see it right here, Noise Dissolve. Actually, if you run your cursor over it, it'll give you a brief preview of what the effect will do. I think it looks really neat as is, so let's go ahead and left click, drag it onto our edit point. You'll notice what's happening here as I drag it onto the edit point, it'll give me a few options. Let me just zoom in Command Plus on our edit point. We can either drag it on to an edit point, so that there's two little handles on the left and right side of our clip or to the left. Feel free to play with both, that's what I usually do. I'm just going to make sure that it drags onto the left portion of the clip and that looks pretty decent to me. I'm going to play it back, but I think the Matcha called to action is coming in way too late. I'm just going to left click to activate that and move it to the left. As I do that, I'm manipulating the timing of that clip. That's a little better, maybe to the right, so that as that transition comes down, that beautiful logo comes up. That looks great to me. If you want, you can drag this element all the way to the right, and we've got a total clip length of 10 seconds, which is phenomenal. That's perfect. Shift Z and let's have a look at the whole final product. It looks pretty darn good to me. If you feel that this is too long, let me show you a quick way of shortening this clip as well. For me, I think it's a little laggy in terms of the time it's taking to get to this end card. It might be a little too long. Why don't we just move everything to the right? Let's simply drag out edit point to the left where we feel it should come in. What I'm doing, is I am, with the arrow selected, just scrolling over to the edit point. I am left click holding down on the edit point and sliding it to the left, so let's see. I'm going to drag my text-box again to the left to adjust our timing that's a lot better to me. I don't really like to waste time on the reals. I don't like dead space. I think things should be dynamic and keep moving. If you feel there's a little bit of dead space, I like to have that transition come in right when the Matcha is done finishing its little animation. Let's have a look again, great. I'm going to undo that and show you one more time because that can be a little tricky, and it's easy to mess this up. Just make sure you're on Shift Z to back all the way out. I am going to left click the edit point and it's going to turn green. I'm then going to left click and hold down and drag that to the left. You can do the same thing if you mess up, just go ahead and do the same thing. Just left click on that edit point not here, not here, not here on the edit point. It'll turn green, and just slide it where you want it to go, and then move your text element accordingly to where you'd like it to come in. That's great timing. I really like that. Let's drag our solid color element to the left to make it just nice and clean. Let's play it back looks really great all the timing looks really great to me. We've got a really, really great final template going. In the next lesson, we're going to figure out how to adjust all these elements in a simple way in order to create multiple reels using this final template. 12. Duplicate Your Reels: Well done on creating the new custom reel. In this lesson, I'll show you how to duplicate that work you just did to create many different versions of the same reel. Welcome back. We've created our final reel, and that's great, but you can't possibly be telling me I have to do this every time I need to make a new reel. Well, the answer is no. We could use this template to make hundreds of different variations by adjusting the font text, the clips, and of course the color bats. In order to do that, here is what I do. I've got my created final template here, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy this compounded clip. I'm going to do that by selecting it, I'm going to ''Right-click", select ''Copy''. I will move my play head down the line on the timeline here. I will right-click anywhere and click ''Paste''. We've got a duplicated version of our compound clip. Big deal, it's the same thing. How do I manipulate it? Well, the next step is to right-click that and select ''Decompose In Place Using Clips Only''. It uncollapses like an accordion into the original clips. These are all duplicated clips that we can now manipulate to our heart's content. Let's do that. Let's go ahead and change our footage, our mattes, and our text. The mattes and the texts take the least amount of work to manipulate again because we just have to change the text and the color. It's simple enough. It just takes a little bit of time to manipulate these video clips, but it's really not a big deal. Let's go ahead and go into our sample footage and find some new clips. I have a few more clips that you can use. I've got the can opening, I've got water pouring to the watcher bowl, and some more mixing. So maybe we'll use the can for our first clip, and our second clip will be the water pouring and then the mixing, is just fine for this demo. How do we go about replacing this sample footage? Well, I'm going to choose our first clip. Just like our original demo. Let's go ahead and find a point where we'd like it to start. That's pretty good. Right about there. I'll use the left and right arrow keys like before. I'll press ''I'' for in and press ''Spacebar''. That's cool. Press ''O'' for out. I'm just going to drag the clip down onto our timeline, just the video, not the audio. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to apply the same effects, the modifiers, the positioning to this clip down here. I will right-click on our first clip, this first little BB clip here, I will select ''Copy''. I will right-click our new sample clip, I will then say Paste Attributes or click ''Paste Attributes''. What we want to do is paste the video attributes. I will check Video Attributes. Click ''Apply'' and look what happens here. If I go over to this clip. That new clip has now positioned itself correctly at the top of the frame and we can make some minor adjustments if we need to. At this stage, let's go ahead and replace this clip with our first clip by deleting the original footage. I'll just delete this by selecting, here's our original clip. I'll just delete these two by clicking ''Delete'' on my keyboard. I will slide this footage over. If snapping is turned on, as you can see here, it's this little magnet icon, DaVinci will guess that you'd like to snap it to this starting position, and it's correct about that. If we actually play it back, looks pretty good. I'll just zoom in a little bit, Command Plus, and we'd like it to freeze frame right there, right where our solid color comes in because that's what we did last time. However, I'm not too happy with where it stops, so again, you can adjust this a little bit by, I'm just dragging the clip to the point where I'd like it to freeze-frame. Maybe I want it to freeze frame when the can opens. Simple enough. Get the clip to stop exactly where you'd like it to be. What I'm doing here is I'm just dragging the clip to where I'd like it to begin. I'm just going to click left and hold to the left to trim the front of the clip, and it's going to freeze frame right at this solid color, right where we positioned it. B for blade to make an edit point there, A for arrow. Remember what we do next? I will select the second half of the clip, right-click, change clip speed, freeze-frame. Then I will just drag this all the way to the right. What we have is our first clip set and ready to go. We need to do the same thing with the three other clips. I'm going to do the second one for you with you right now, and then I want you to try to do the third one yourself. Let's go ahead and find the second footage now. I'm going to double-click our source footage, and this time I'd like to bring in the water bowl. How about right about there? I'm going to click ''I'' for in, Spacebar, Over out. I will then click ''Hold'' and drag just the video portion down onto the timeline, and there you have it. Remember, it's centering perfectly for this middle clip so that's really great. All we need to do is drag this clip all the way to the left for our second clip so I'll just delete these. I'm just selecting the front clip here, Delete, the second half, Delete, sliding this into position, right where we would like it to start. Fantastic. We wanted to freeze frame, so where do we want it to freeze frame? We want it to freeze frame right when this second solid color matte pops in. Let's just do that by moving our play head right to that location, clicking, and dragging. I do that a lot on the scrubber bar here so just drag your play head right to that solid color. Hit ''B'' for blade. Cut right at that position, A for arrow. You follow? On this right-hand side of clip, right where we cut, we're going to convert that into a freeze-frame clip. I'm going to right-click, change clip speed, and freeze-frame. Excellent. We're going to slide this to the right. We're extending the length of the freeze frame. So when I click and drag it, it's extending the length of the freeze-frame and that's what we want. We want it to line up just like that, and if we play it back, looks good to me. Let's go ahead and do the third clip. Do you remember how to do that? I want you to pause the video and remember, I'm going to give you a little hint. You have to copy and paste the inspector settings. That's all I'm going to say. I think I've already given you too much, but go ahead and pause the video and see if you can do the third clip. Welcome back. We're going to adjust and insert the third bottom clip by finding the last piece of footage we need. I'm going to go ahead and click our sample footage to locate our last and final clip. We'll use this string. We'll find a nice little point here, I'm clicking and dragging on this little timeline bar. I'll select ''I'' for in and ''O'' for out. That should be plenty. I will then just drag down, click and hold and drag on this video icon down onto the timeline to pull our clip down onto the timeline. Phenomenon. However, it's not in the right position. We want this clip to appear at the bottom. How do we do that? Well, I'm going to copy the modification settings of this original clip and paste them onto the new footage we just put on our timeline. I'll do that by right-clicking on the third clip settings here, I'm going to right-click and say ''Copy'' right here, I will right-click my new footage, and I will select ''Paste Attributes''. If you got this correct, congratulations. I do this a lot. I copy and paste a lot of attributes, and it will correctly guess that I want to paste my video attributes. Just make sure that this is selected, checked, and say ''Apply''. What will happen now is if we look at our new footage, there you go. It's right at the bottom of the reel, just how we want it. We're good to go. Let's go ahead and delete our original footage here because we don't want that anymore. I'll just select it, hit ''Delete'' and I'll get the other one and select ''Delete'' because we're getting rid of that third clip. We're putting some new footage in. I will slide this into position, the new footage, and it needs to freeze frame, right as this third color matte comes in. Remember what we do here? Hit ''B'' for blade. I will blade point right at that play head marker. That's why I always use the red play head marker because everything snaps to it. Makes it super easy in DaVinci, I'll go to A for arrow, I will right-click the sample footage, and I will change the clip speed to freeze frame. Excellent. I need to extend the length, the timing of this freeze-frame, so I'll just drag it to the right. We should be good to go. If we play back this clip, everything looks nice and neat. In the next demo, what we're going to do is, we are going to manipulate the other features of this reel so that we can create a different variation of that original reel. 13. Adding Text and Color : Congratulations on making a second template real, so that we can start editing this. Manipulating the text and the color matte is a very simple process because we've already done the work. What you're going to go ahead and do in order to change the colors is select whichever element you want to manipulate and just adjust the settings right in the inspector. I'm going to select the first color matte. I'm going to change my color to be a blue. Hit "Okay." I'll select my second color matte and make sure to move the play head to the elements so you can see what you're doing as you manipulate it. Because if you don't, you won't be able to see what changes you're making. Make sure to move the play head, especially if you have the viewer looking like mine. Again, if you want your viewer to look like mine, go ahead and collapse the inspector and toggle on this little feature in order to see what you're looking at all times. I just have it this way because it's hard for me to see everything I'd like to see as I'm editing so I have everything collapsed into one. With the inspector selected and the scrub play head scrubber over the element you'd like to adjust. Just make sure that if you're in this view board, that you're seeing what I'm seeing. With the solid colors selected the second element I'll go into color and change it to maybe deep purple. Click "Okay". For the third color element, instead of purple, I've selected it here in red. I'm just simply clicking on it making sure that generator is selected, and we'll go with, how about a nice yellow, about that, something like that and I'll click "Okay. " Now we've changed each and every color, and we'd like to change the text. Let's change the text to fresh organic mocha. Here is the first random right on. Again, move the play head so you can see what you're doing. You might need to move it a little bit down the line so you can see everything appear on screen. I will go to random right on and select "Fresh." For the second one, just make sure the second text element is highlighted in red. Let's do fresh, organic, and mocha we can leave. What we need to do now is obviously adjust the elements so that their front row and center, because they're all look a little bit messy. I'll go to the first element here, and we need to pop this over, maybe even increase the size. I can increase the size by going into Title, making sure that this is selected. Title. Increasing the size. Fresh, nice, and big, and going into settings now and again, I'm just sliding this bar here in order to make it big, going into settings. I'm going to click and slide to the left and right in order to get this exactly the way I'd like it to be. For the second random right on, I'm just clicking that in order to modify its settings, and again, I'm going to want to make sure the slider or the play-head scrubber bar is right where I can see the full text appearing because I want to make those changes and make sure that everything is looking great. Under title, I will maybe increase the size a little bit, and drag on this slider bar here. I'm going to go ahead back into Settings. I want to position this to the left by just dragging on my slider here. Looks pretty good. For mocha, it's a little tiny. I'm going to select our third element here, and just make sure it's nice and big. I'll just go into Title. I know that this is the one I'm editing because it says macho here. If I had something else selected, it would say the word of the text element that I would be editing. But in this case it's correct, it's says macho so having that selected, just make sure you're going through slowly as you make these changes. I'm moving by scrubber, head, play head here to the right so I can see what I'm doing. Just increasing the size a little bit. Going into Settings, you get the idea. I'm going to position this to the left and now we have three new words, three new colors, and we are all set. I'll just hit Shift ''Z'' to check out what we're working with here. As you can see, we have our original edit, organic milk mocha, with three different color mattes and three different texts elements and three different videos, and we have the same here. Obviously, due to the tutorial, it's taken me a little bit more time to talk you through this. If you do this on your own, it takes way less time and that's what we're here to do as busy people. The demo itself, again, it takes a little bit of time to walk you through it. But once you've got the mechanics, you can essentially just copy and paste this template multiple times in order to create different variations of the same reel using the same custom template just to make a few minor changes. In the next lesson, I'll show you how to compound the clip, add the end card and simple transition. 14. Additional Compound Clip: Welcome back. Now we need to make a new compound clip in order to create our end card and transition. Do you remember how to do that? Well, if you do or don't, I'll give you a quick review again. This is just info we've already covered, but with the new reel that we've created. In this case, I don't want to do Command A because I'll be selecting all of my clips on the time and I don't want that, so by hitting Shift Z, we're able to see the entire timeline. What I do is, you know me, I'm a click and drag or so, I'll just click, drag my elements here. I will right-click and select new compound clip and this one I'll call V2. I'll click "Create" and there you have it. We have a new, really nice, clean, I love clean editing when things look nice and clean, and it looks really phenomenal actually. It's a different variation on our original reel and something that's almost ready to go out into the world. We just need to add our end card and text box. I can do that simply by copying these two elements because we already have them made. Why would we want to create two elements? We're all busy people here, so we don't have time. I will right-click, click "Copy". Move my playhead to the point I'd like it to paste. I mean, you could paste it anywhere really. I mean you could just paste it here. Right-click anywhere and click "Paste" and there we go. We've got a duplicated text box and call to action. They're both selected because you just pasted them and I'll simply drag them to the left until they snap. Do this slowly. I'm not going very fast. I'm doing it slowly, ever so slowly. If you don't like this method, again, use the scrubber playhead to your advantage. Just move the playhead to the end of your second compound clip and drag these two elements and it'll snap accordingly. I'm going to zoom in here a little bit just to make sure everything is lining up and as you can see, there's a little bit of a gap. Again, I just need to snap to the playhead. Just like that. I'm going to zoom out a little bit, Command minus or Shift Z. Let's Shift Z. As you can see, we've got the same timing, but we're missing our effect or our transition effects, so I'll just simply right-click on our transition, I'll copy, I'll select our edit point, and hit "Paste". Now if that was too fast for you, I'll undo that. You can simply, as you can see under video transitions, just type in noise dissolve. This is the second way to do it. Go ahead and zoom in on your edit point here. Command plus, to get a little bit closer so you can see what you're doing. I will left-click on noise dissolve and simply drag the element onto our transition point. It's a little hard to see. If you're having trouble seeing it, remember, you can slide these video track bars up. I'm going to delete this and show you again. I can drag the video bar up to see a little bit more and drag this to see a little bit better, so let's check out our transition. Beautiful. Again, you can edit this text box call to action with something else. You can put a logo there, any photo you'd like. You can change the solid color element again. It's really up to you. Sometimes what happens is this transition menu will pop up. We don't want that, we want video, so make sure if you're having trouble seeing anything you need to adjust, that video is selected. Maybe we change the solid color, go into generator. I have this selected but not transition. I'm going to go to video, generator and we can change this to maybe match of color and click "Okay" so mint. There you have it. I mean, there's multiple ways of changing the reel to make it different than the first and you can use these over and over again. You could even use different transitions, so play around with all the different really neat transitions that are created in DaVinci. There's just so much to work with here. I'm going to go ahead and delete this transition to show you. I mean, there's so many, you could use a diamond iris. There's so many interesting transitions that you could use that you've got a hundreds, thousands, and infinite amount of variations to use. Congratulations, you've made two really successful reels based on the same style and template, but they look a little bit different. I really like the style again because it actually adds a bit of brand consistency to your marketing efforts so that everything it looks the same but is different, so your customers will look at your designs and say, I recognize this brand, and it's a really great way to have a consistent aesthetic across multiple reels on your account. In the next lesson, we will finally export the reel and we'll show you how to upload that reel to Instagram, where we can add some hashtags and music. 15. Export Your Reels: You may have created more than one reel at this stage. In order to isolate an export each one on that timeline, you'll need to set some in and out points on the timeline in order to export them individually. Let's take a look. We're coming to the finish line here, and the last thing we need to do is of course, export this reel so we can upload it to your phone for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, whatever have you. Here we go. We've got our created reels and what we need to do is export the ones that we need. What I do sometimes you'll see I've created a third copy. I put all of my reels on the same timeline. What we need to do is isolate which one we'd like to export for use. Let's say we want to export the second reel. What I need to do is tell DaVinci I just want to export this part of my timeline because there are three other maybe potential reels here. What I like to do is I'll move my play head to the front of the reel I'd like to export. I'll hit I for in. I will head to the end of the clip, and hit O for out. You'll notice there's a little black part that appears here. I don't like that. I think I just wanted to end. I'm hitting the left arrow key by the way, that's why you're seeing this school bus of arrow keys. Maybe I'd like just to end here right at this frame. I'm just stepped framing to the left, and then I will click O for out. I'll hit O on my keyboard for out. That will create an in and out point on the timeline letting DaVinci Know I just want to export this amount of time on my timeline. Not the whole timeline, just this part of the timeline. Once you have everything selected here, I'll go into the little rocket ship icon as you know, and here are my settings for reels that I'll walk you through. This is the delivery page as you know. First I'm going to name it 001, whatever you like, and browse to figure out where we'd like to save it. I'll save it to our desktop. Click "Save". At this stage, here are my settings. What I like to use under video, I like to use MPEG-4, H264, 1080 by 1920, it looks great. Use vertical resolution. This is my frame rate, automatic for quality. Under advanced settings, I like to have these two checked force sizing to highest-quality, force to bear to highest quality. Of course we don't have audio, so I like to uncheck the audio, and we're good to go. I will add this to my render queue by clicking this button below, "Add to Render Queue", which will pop it over to the right and I will hit "Render All". When I hit this button, you'll see what happens. It's just going to render the in and out point of my reel, and that's exactly what we want. Let's see if everything worked out. Well, I'll head over to the exported reel. There you go, 001. There you have it. Congratulations on creating your custom reel. You can now use this template to create hundreds of new reels with different configurations and pieces of footage. You could even use photos instead of video and of course, apply lots of different transitions and text elements. In the next bonus lesson, Rosetta will show you how to upload your reel to Instagram and some really helpful tips and tricks for adding music and hashtags. 16. Bonus: Airdrop Utility: For this video, and all Mac users will be using AirDrop to share the video with our phone. If you're a non-Mac user, you can use G-Drive, AirDrop, third-party software, or other Cloud-based services to download the video directly to your phone. If you have any issues related to this, feel free to leave a comment, and we'll help you navigate this or any other issue you're having. In the search bar, please type AirDrop. This will open the AirDrop feature on your Mac. At the bottom of this window, there's an option to select who to share it with. I'll select everyone. That's all we need to do for now to make sure AirDrop is turned on and working for the laptop. Jumping to the phone now, just swipe from the top right corner and diagonally across to activate the smart menu on your iPhone. If you press and hold down on the upper left-hand set of icons, you'll see a small icon for AirDrop, hold down this icon and select everyone. The icon will then turn blue to let you know that the AirDrop is on. 17. Bonus: Airdrop Footage to Phone: Back on the laptop now, just right-click the reel you've exported and select "Share" and you'll see a new window appears with who you would like to share your clip with. Select your iPhone of choice. When you look at your iPhone, a message will appear to confirm receipt of the reel from your laptop. [NOISE] Confirm and the reel will be downloaded to your photo album. In the next video, we'll take a look at how to upload, add music, and hashtag tips for your reel. 18. Bonus: Import and Add Music: Open Instagram, go to your account by pressing the small icon in the lower right-hand corner, and then press on the plus button on the top menu bar. From here, create a new Reel. Then in the bottom-left corner, select and choose your Reel. If you're not seeing your Reel displayed, make sure now to tap Manage in the upper right corner. Then select More photos and then select your Reel. Then press "Done". You should now see a Reel displayed. Tap this Reel and check the Reel to make sure there are no mistakes, and everything is looking good. If everything looks great, press "Add" in the top right corner. Then press "Next". At this stage, we've got our video ready to go, but we'd like to add some music. Let's go ahead and press the tiny little music icon above. This will open the menu to search for any music you would like. For this demo, I'll search for Japanese tea and select Japanese garden. [MUSIC] This sound is really nice and I think it would be a great fit for the ad. You can select any part of the song you wish by simply scrolling left and right on the song menu bar at the bottom. If you're satisfied, press Done to review all of your changes and press Next to continue. 19. Bonus: Edit Cover Photo: From here, I like to press on the Edit Cover option here to select the best moment from the real to display on your profile grid. It will be the first image your client or visitor will see when they view your profile page. If you're not happy with any moment in the real, you can select a custom cover by pressing Add from Camera Roll and choosing any image you wish to be the cover photo for the real. At this stage, once you're happy with the image, select profile grid to adjust the image by dragging up or down on the image to center your image. This will make sure your cover image looks great on your profile grid. 20. Bonus: Add Text and Hashtag Tips: The next step is adding some custom text and hashtags related to your video in order to attract the right audience to your reel and profile. For any reel, it's important to engage the audience by creating a call-to-action or how you would like your audience to interact with your video. For this demo, we want our audience to visit our website and use a special promo code to purchase matcha. Our first-line of texts might be something like, 50 percent off premium grade matcha this Friday only. See link in Bio for details. [NOISE] From here we'll add a few hashtags that are relevant to your ads such as matcha, tea, organic, tea lover, and maybe tea culture. Try not to use too many hashtags as Instagram doesn't really like what they call hashtag spamming. Use maybe five to 10 marks at any given time. When you're done, if you like, you can also tag over accounts related to your ad by pressing "Tag people" and searching for an additional account. If you have linked your Instagram account to Facebook, go ahead, and check the box here to share there as well. Check the box and it will turn blue. From there, press "Share," and it will upload to Instagram. [MUSIC] 21. Final Words: Congratulations again on creating a custom real and uploading it to your own account. We hope you enjoyed this course and if you did, please take five minutes to leave us a review, it means a lot. We would also love to see the reel that you made, so please share it in the project and resources section on the Skillshare page. Thank you again for your support and we hope to see you in our next courses.