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Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ trims your Reels clips for you
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The Reels-editing feature automatically cuts out pauses across your clips.
The Reels-editing feature automatically cuts out pauses across your clips.
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Instagram is launching a new Reels-editing feature that automatically trims your video clips to focus on the highlights. The feature, called First Draft, is rolling out to Instagram’s iPhone app and provides a “starting point” that you can build upon with other edits, according to an announcement on Tuesday.
An example shared by Instagram shows a user selecting multiple clips for a reel and then tapping the “First Draft” button. From there, Instagram analyzes the clips — each of which is more than a minute long — before trimming them down to eliminate pauses and showcase the most important parts. Instagram then combines the snippets into a reel that’s ready to edit and share.
It sounds similar to Adobe’s AI-powered Quick Cut feature, which automatically combines clips based on a prompt. But unlike Adobe’s feature, Instagram’s First Draft tool doesn’t use AI, according to Nicole Rechtszaid, the head of communications at Instagram.