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How to Use Instagram Reels - The Ultimate TikTok Competitor
Hey everyone Instagram reels, a big update from Instagram is finally here. I've been waiting to make this video for a really long time. It was probably one of the biggest updates from Instagram ever really since the Instagram story. So I wanted to make a video to show you exactly how to use it. Now, Instagram reels are basically 15 second short videos that you could either upload or create within the Instagram app and then you could share them and it's a lot like an app called TikTok. If you've ever used that. So you could start by choosing a song from a list of popular songs, record your clip to that song and then go ahead and share it with your friends. Use the explore page to get found and get a lot more followers.
It very, very interesting update from Instagram. Make sure you update your Instagram app. Sometimes these updates do take a few days or even a few weeks to get to all phones. So this was released just as I'm recording this, but I've already updated my app and I have it in a couple of my profiles. Let's jump into the phone.
So I could show you how to use Instagram reels and get to Instagram reels inside of your Instagram app. You basically just have to press your profile picture. So right here, if I pressed a profile picture, this is how I would jump into an Instagram story. But on the bottom of the page, Instagram basically broke this up into three different sections.
Instagram live the Instagram story with all the options on the left side here, like create boomerang layout and Instagram reels are the last option over here. So this is exactly how it works. Now, this is brand new as I'm making this video. So some of these updates will take a little bit of time to get to every single Instagram app.
So give it a little bit of time. If yours doesn't look exactly this way now, first things first. Look on the left side here and typically you want to start with a song. So you would pick this music icon right over here, and you have options here. So for you or the browse section gives you access to all these different songs, or you can search music on top.
So let me just choose a song here. Then the next thing is Instagram real videos are 50 seconds long. So you want to pick the 15 seconds of the song here and you'll see the lyrics of the song right on top. So I'll choose the first 15 seconds, but if you want to choose a different part of the song, just scroll through here with your finger to choose a different part of the song pressed on top.
Now the music is queued up. So as soon as you start recording your clip, the music is going to start playing too. So right now I'm going to have a mine on mute, but let me start recording. Let me pick up the phone here and I'm going to press on hold on the real icon here and as you could see on top, the red bar is going and he's recording.
Now. I could make it up to 15 seconds, but if I let go, that's my first clip. Let me go to my second shot here. Press and hold and record the second clip and I'll go over here and press and hold and record the third clip. Just like that. I have three different clips and I could do it again for as long as 15 seconds.
Let me put this down and show you some other options that you could do on the left side. You could change the speed. So I recorded at one express regular speed, but you could do two or three times faster or slower before you start recording. So if I want it to record something, at double speed. I could just select that and now I could go ahead and record this clip in double speed and let go, then you'll have the effects tab if you want to add effects to your video. So that's the option right on there, the speed change and then the timer. If you're taking a video of yourself, this is really useful because you could go ahead and set this timer over here to say how long the clip is going to be.
So in this case, I only have a couple of seconds left in my 15-second clip. So I could go ahead and set the timer for that and if I just press record is going to give me a countdown. So if you're recording yourself, this is the way you would do it. And the video is done. But let me just go back over here.
If you get to 15 seconds, you automatically go to the next page. I'll go back to the first page we were on here and besides those options, you have the align option, and that only works after your first clip. So you won't have that line option before you record. I'll show you that line option after I show you the rest of this page.
So now. I'll just have to press the arrow forward to go to the next page and this is going to play my video back and on this page, the music is playing in the background. Again, I have it on mute, but I could add stickers. Right now it's a little bit limited, but hopefully, they add more stickers to this section.
So you can go ahead and add those stickers here, just like this I'm placed at anywhere within your video. You could go ahead and add text. So the text would go here, a lot of different text formats to choose from on the bottom. So you could see all the different options. You could even change the color on top, for example, and you could put that somewhere within your video and I'm going to go ahead and press next on the bottom here and I get to the final page where I have two choices. I could post this to Instagram reels, which is the default of stories. So stories we've seen before, but let's go back to reels. Type your caption here.
Use hashtags here. Again, very helpful to be discovered. I'll make another video on the hashtags you should use inside of Instagram reels. You could change your cover here, select that and choose a different part of your video as your cover. By sliding through down here, let's say this is good. I'll press done and do you want to share it to your feet now? You don't have to I'll show you the different ways you could get discovered with Instagram reels. But I usually recommend that you would just share this to your feed and then go ahead and press share right over here on the bottom. Now, if I go to my feed here, that's just my profile page.
You see that Instagram reels video right there is showing up just like this to caption underneath it, but it has a real icon on your profile. But now look at what changes on your profile? You have four different tabs here. So there's a real tab dedicated just too real post-Instagram reels posts here. You still have IGTV and you still have what you're tagged in.
So you have four different icons here, but reels get their own dedicated icon and all the videos will show up right over here for it. Another way to get discovered is if you go to the search icon here, the explore page here, you see the Instagram reels posts are going to show up here and people could discover them that way.
So you should definitely utilize this as much as you can, especially early on to get discovered here on the explore page. Let me jump back to Instagram reels here. One more time and let me show you two different things. I didn't show you before the first one. Let me just record a quick clip by pressing and holding in the center and the overlay icon here.
That line icon. If you click it. It basically lets you align things and create time labs animation this way. This also lets you do seamless transitions. Like for example, if you're doing an outfit change, you could line your previous clip up to the next one. So that's what that line option lets you, do and you could also upload your own videos. It doesn't have to be the one you're recording. So on the very bottom of the page, press that you get access to your camera libraries and you could go ahead and select one of the videos from your camera libraries you could see on top is adding it to my video that I already created, which was the first two clips and I professed the checkmark and that's how I could combine videos that I have on my phone and the videos that I'm recording here on Instagram, real. If you have a private account now it's not going to be shown on the explore page, which is really nice because only your friends are you gonna see a real post on your feed and on that real tab that I showed you on your profile, make sure you subscribe to this channel.
I post social media videos, just like this one on Instagram, multiple times a week and I have hundreds of videos on Instagram already on this channel and I'm really gonna focus on Instagram reels. In the next few weeks and months to help you grow on that platform as well. Thanks so much for watching the video. Please give it a thumbs up and I'll catch you next time.