Guides from inside
the render engine.
Deep dives on the ExpoCut template format, the on-device render pipeline, AI-driven video automation, and how to get the most out of mobile video editing.
Import Photoshop .ABR Brushes into Video on Your Phone
Your Photoshop brush library is not stuck in Photoshop. ExpoCut imports .abr brush packs — from a file or a URL — and turns every sampled brush into a full-resolution stamp you can drop on video, recolour with gradients and mesh fills, glow, animate and export exactly as it looks on the canvas.
Brush Style: Mesh Fills, Alive Glow, Shadows & Outlines for Brush Stamps
ExpoCut's Brush Style sheet turns any brush stamp — from the built-in catalog or an imported Photoshop pack — into a finished graphic: solid, gradient or 4-colour mesh fills, a glow that pulses, breathes or flickers, edge softness, a drop shadow and an outline. Six one-tap Looks, live preview, and an export that matches the canvas pixel for pixel.
Wizard Mode: Fill a Video Template Without Touching the Timeline
ExpoCut's template Wizard walks you through a template slot by slot — text, images, videos, music — with a live canvas that updates as you type, then hands you a Wizard view where every slot is a chip you can tap to change. Switch to the full Timeline any time and back again. Here's the whole flow.
What's New in ExpoCut 5.8
The 5.8 release in one page: the compact text tray with glass, plastic and glossy surfaces and 101 particle entrances; curved and snake text; three timeline styles; Cam Move with 88 camera presets and depth parallax; Light Studio regions; Liquify and the Warp & Distort engine; Portrait, Subject and Face blur; brushes, 3D objects, wizard mode — with a guide for each.
Urdu & Arabic Titles on Your Phone (RTL Text, Nastaliq Fonts)
Add Urdu, Arabic, Persian or Hebrew titles to a video on your phone with correct right-to-left layout and cursive shaping. ExpoCut's Urdu/Arabic text tool previews every style in Arabic script and ships 44 Urdu faces — Jameel Noori Nastaleeq, Alvi Nastaleeq, Noto Nastaliq Urdu, Mehr Nastaliq and more — that render on the canvas and in the export.
Timeline Styles Explained: Classic, Main Track & Compact
ExpoCut's timeline comes in three styles — Classic free-form rows, a magnetic Main track, and Compact. Learn what each one does to cuts, gaps and rows, how to switch per project from the transport strip, and how to set the default for new edits in Settings.
Curved Text & Snake Path: Text on a Path on Your Phone
Bend a title into an arc, wrap it around a circle, ripple it on a wave, or send the letters crawling along any motion path with Snake. ExpoCut's Axes tab and Motion Path picker do all four on-device — here's where they are, what each control does, and how Urdu/Arabic titles behave on a curve.
Liquify, Warp & Distort Effects on Your Phone
Push, bloat and pucker pixels by hand with Liquify, or drop a whole-frame warp — Swirl, Vortex Spin, Bulge, Pinch, Fisheye, Ripple Rings, Heat Wave, Kaleido, Mirror Split, Tiny Planet, Slant Shear, Shockwave, Frosted Glass, Displacement Map — from ExpoCut's Warp & Distort engine. Where each lives, what the sliders do, and how to keep it from looking like a filter.
Light & Grade Regions: Power Windows on Your Phone
Relight part of a frame instead of all of it. ExpoCut's Light Studio adds shaped regions — area, gradient, radial, drawn object — each with its own exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows and even its own filter or LUT, stackable and keyframeable. The colourist's power window, on a phone.
Glass, Plastic & Particle Text Effects on Your Phone
Give titles a real material — Transparent, Glass, Plastic or Glossy surfaces with bevel, depth and shine — and bring them in with 101 particle entrances: smoke, embers, glitter, snow, confetti, petals and more. A walkthrough of ExpoCut's text Surface row and the Particles animation family.
Camera Moves & Parallax on Your Phone (Cam Move Guide)
Add cinematic camera moves to any video on your phone. ExpoCut's Cam Move tab has 88 presets — 3D zooms, slow pushes, dollies, cranes, handheld, vertigo, orbits — an on-canvas gizmo for pan, zoom and rotation keyframes, and per-layer Depth for real parallax. Here's how it works.
Brush Strokes & Hand-Drawn Overlays on Your Phone
Point at things, circle them, underline them, splatter paint over them — ExpoCut's Brush layer drops 134 hand-drawn strokes (arrows, circles, underlines, sparkles, ink, marker, paint, dry brush, spray, scribble, comic, neon, energy) onto any video as editable shape layers you can recolour, outline, animate and keyframe.
Auto-Cut Silence & Turn a Long Video Into a Short
Cut the dead air out of a talking-head or voiceover in one tap with ExpoCut's Auto-Cut, and let an AI assistant pick the most energetic passages of a long take to build a short — both on your phone, both non-destructive. What each tool does, where it lives, and when it says no.
How to Add 3D Objects to a Video on Your Phone
Drop a spinning 3D shape — or your own .glb, .gltf or .obj model — into a video on your phone. ExpoCut's 3D Object layer has 13 preset shapes, colour and material options (Standard, Wire, Flat, Glossy, Metal), seven animations, and a file/URL importer, all rendered on-device.
Track Mattes & After-Effects-Style Compositing on Your Phone
Go beyond basic layers: use alpha and luma track mattes to reveal footage through a shape or text, mix layers with blend modes, and drop an adjustment layer to grade everything below at once — real motion-graphics compositing, on a phone.
Add Animated Stickers & Lottie Overlays to a Video
Drop animated overlays on your video on your phone: ready-made confetti, hearts, stars and streamers for personality, plus full Lottie support — paste Lottie JSON or pick a .json/.lottie file for crisp vector animations that scale to any size.
How to Reverse & Freeze-Frame a Video on Your Phone
Play a clip backwards or hold a single frame on your phone with one tap: Freeze and Reverse live on the clip toolbar, Slip shifts which part of the source plays, and Repeat loops a clip to any length. Time Remap is still there for custom speed curves.
Import After Effects & CapCut Templates (.mogrt) on Mobile
Bring projects and templates from other editors into ExpoCut on your phone. Import After Effects .mogrt motion graphics, Lottie animations, and FCPXML timelines, then edit them natively — reuse work from desktop tools without rebuilding it.
How to Use & Import LUTs (.cube) on Your Phone
Use professional LUTs in your video on your phone — apply built-in cinematic looks, dial the intensity, and import your own .cube LUT files for a custom or studio-matched grade. The fast path to a consistent, film-grade color look.
How to Make a YouTube Short (Step by Step)
Make a YouTube Short on your phone — 9:16 vertical, under 60 seconds, with a hook that survives the swipe, clear value, captions, and a clean loop. A complete editing walkthrough in ExpoCut from project to export.
How to Make an Instagram Reel (Start to Post)
Make a scroll-stopping Instagram Reel on your phone — the right 9:16 size, a 3-second hook, beat-matched cuts, a clean filter, captions, and the export settings that look best in the feed. A complete walkthrough using ExpoCut.
How to Make a TikTok Video (That People Actually Watch)
Make a TikTok on your phone that holds attention — vertical 9:16, an instant hook, fast punchy cuts, on-screen captions, and a tight loop. A full editing walkthrough in ExpoCut, from blank project to export.
How to Edit Video to the Beat (Cut Your Clips to the Music)
Sync your cuts to the music on your phone. Read the beat straight from the audio waveform, park the playhead on each beat, and Split — the single biggest upgrade for music-driven video. Isolate the drums with stem separation for an even clearer beat to cut to.
How to Make an App Promo Video with Device Mockups
Wrap your screen recording in a clean phone frame and build a polished app-promo video on your phone. Use ExpoCut's device mockups and the Phone Mockup Reveal effect for App Store previews, feature highlights and launch teasers.
How to Clean Up Video Audio (Isolate, EQ & Loudness)
Make your video sound as good as it looks. Isolate a clean voice out of noise with stem separation, shape it with EQ and dynamics, even out loudness, and balance music under your voice so nothing fights for attention.
Import a DaVinci .cdl Color Grade on Your Phone
Bring a professional ASC CDL grade from DaVinci Resolve, Premiere or Final Cut onto your phone. ExpoCut reads .cdl / .ccc Color Decision Lists, detects the format, and wraps your footage in the exact slope/offset/power/saturation a colorist set on the desktop.
How to Add Captions & Subtitles to a Video (Automatically)
Add captions to any video on your phone — auto-transcribed on-device, no typing. Generate subtitles from speech, fix the wording, style them for readability, and burn them in. Works offline; your audio never leaves the phone.
Video-in-Text: How to Put Footage Inside Your Letters
Create the trendy 'video inside text' effect on your phone — footage playing through big bold letters. ExpoCut fills your text glyphs with any video or image, so a single word becomes a window into your clip. Great for intros and titles.
Video Data Widgets: Scoreboards, Polls, QR Codes & More
Add live data overlays to your video on your phone — scoreboard, poll, stat bar, quote, follower count, like-burst, QR code, weather, news ticker and more. ExpoCut ships 22 configurable widgets that drop on the canvas as real layers.
How to Use Templates & Reels (Make a Video in Minutes)
Skip the blank timeline. Start from a Template or Reel on your phone, preview it live, fill its slots in Wizard mode with your own clips and text, recolor it to your brand, and export. The fastest way to a finished, good-looking video in ExpoCut.
Text-to-Speech Voiceover on Your Phone (No Mic Needed)
Turn a script into a natural voiceover on your phone — pick a voice by accent and gender, type your lines, and ExpoCut generates the narration on-device. No microphone, no recording, and your script never leaves the phone.
How to Make a Split-Screen & Collage Video on Phone
Put two or more videos on screen at once. Use ExpoCut's collage layouts — grid, mosaic, diamond and freeform — for split-screen comparisons, reaction videos, multi-cam, and before/after. Drop a clip into each tile and you're done.
Slow Motion & Speed Ramps on Your Phone (the Cinematic Way)
Make slow motion, fast-forward and smooth speed ramps on your phone. Set a clip's speed, keep the audio pitch natural, ramp from slow to fast for cinematic hits, and freeze a frame — all on-device with preview that matches the export.
How to Save & Reuse Your Own Video Template
Build a video once, reuse its structure forever. Save any ExpoCut project as your own template on your phone, then start new videos from it with your animations, timing and branding already in place — perfect for series and repeatable formats.
How to Remove Vocals & Make a Karaoke Track (On-Device)
Split any song into vocals, drums, bass and other — right on your phone. Remove the vocals for a karaoke or instrumental track, isolate a voice, rebalance the mix, or cut your edit to the drums. All on-device, nothing uploaded.
How to Remove the Background from a Video (No Green Screen)
Cut the background out of any video on your phone — no green screen needed. ExpoCut's on-device subject segmentation isolates a person automatically, so you can drop them onto a new backdrop, a blurred scene, or a brand color. Plus when to use chroma key instead.
How to Add Picture-in-Picture (PiP) to a Video on Your Phone
Put a small video over a bigger one — picture-in-picture for reactions, webcam-over-screen-recording, tutorials and commentary. Scale it down, drop it in a corner, round the edges, and animate it in. All on your phone.
How to Make a Photo Slideshow Video (with Music)
Turn your photos into a moving slideshow video on your phone. Set each photo's duration, add the Ken Burns slow-zoom so stills feel alive, transition between them, and sync it all to music. Perfect for memories, recaps, and birthdays.
How to Make a Meme Video (Captions, Zoom Punches & SFX)
Make a meme video on your phone — bold top-and-bottom captions, the classic zoom-punch for emphasis, a record-scratch or boing sound effect, and a freeze on the punchline. Everything you need to turn a clip into a shareable joke.
How to Add Lower Thirds (Name Tags & Speaker Titles)
Add professional lower thirds to your video on your phone — animated name tags and titles for speakers, segments and brands. Pick from 120+ presets (including Arabic/Urdu right-to-left sets), edit the primary and secondary text, and match your colors.
Kinetic Typography & Typewriter Text (Words That Move)
Make text that types itself out and words that animate character by character on your phone. ExpoCut's typewriter reveal and per-character animation turn plain captions into kinetic typography — the punchy, word-by-word style all over short video.
How to Use a Green Screen (Chroma Key) on Your Phone
Film against a green or blue screen and key it out on your phone. ExpoCut's chroma key drops a solid color so your subject lands on any background — with tips on lighting the screen, avoiding spill, and getting clean edges around hair and motion.
How to Add Your Logo & Brand Kit to Every Video
Stamp your logo, colors, and handles onto every video on your phone. Save a brand profile once — logo, slogan, socials, brand colours, watermark, and intro/outro bumpers — and it's auto-selected on export. Plus how to drop a logo onto any single clip in seconds.
How to Add Borders & Frames to a Video (on Your Phone)
Frame your clips on your phone — Polaroid, film strip, neon and custom borders. Add per-side widths, solid/dashed/dotted styles, and a glowing edge to make photos and videos pop, separate a picture-in-picture, or give a clip a designed, retro feel.
How to Blur Part of a Video (Faces, Plates & Backgrounds)
Blur a face, a license plate, a logo, or the whole background of a video on your phone. Use ExpoCut's blur with a mask to confine it to one moving region, blur the background for depth, or fill empty bars with a soft blur. Privacy and polish, on a phone.
Blend Modes Explained (Overlays That Actually Look Good)
Understand blend modes on your phone — Screen, Multiply, Overlay and more. Learn which mode drops black, which drops white, and how to composite light leaks, dust, smoke and textures over your footage so they sit in the shot instead of on top of it.
How to Make a Bar Chart Race Video on Your Phone
Make those satisfying animated bar chart race videos right on your phone. ExpoCut's bar-chart-race widget animates ranked data over time — top countries, brands, players, subscribers — with bars that overtake each other. Load your data, style it, export.
How to Add a Countdown Timer to a Video
Drop a live countdown timer (or stopwatch) into your video on your phone. Perfect for sale launches, giveaways, 'starting soon' screens, workout intervals and challenges — a real ticking widget you can style and place anywhere on the canvas.
How to Add Effects to a Video (Every Effect Explained)
The complete guide to video effects: filters, transitions, motion, text animation, color grading, blur, glitch, light leaks and generative backgrounds — what each one does, when to use it, and how to add it on your phone.
Video Automation: How to Create Videos at Scale (2026)
A practical guide to video automation: turn one template into hundreds of videos with data, auto-caption and batch-export, and drive an editor with an AI assistant — all explained from first principles.
How to Add Stock Footage & Import Clips to Your Video
Add free stock video and photos to your project and import clips from your camera roll or social platforms — the fastest way to fill gaps and build B-roll.
How to Use Shapes, Masks & Overlays in Video
Use shapes, masks and overlays to design your video on your phone: add graphic shapes and lower-thirds, mask a layer into a heart/circle/custom shape, and reveal or hide parts of a clip for pro-looking composites.
Generative Backgrounds & Shaders for Video (Light Leaks Too)
Add animated generative backgrounds, shader effects and light leaks to your video on your phone — aurora, nebula and rain-on-glass backdrops behind text, plus organic overlays that make footage feel alive.
30+ Mobile Video Effects (and How to Use Each One)
A practical menu of mobile video effects you can add on your phone right now — glitch, slow-motion, light leaks, zoom, blur, shaders, animated text and more — grouped by the vibe you're going for, each with when-to-use advice.
How to Edit Video on Your Phone (2026 Complete Guide)
The complete 2026 guide to editing video on your phone: trim and layer clips, add effects and filters, drop on titles and music, color grade, and export for TikTok, Reels and Shorts — no desktop needed.
How to Make Your First Video in ExpoCut (Start to Export)
A friendly, no-experience-needed walkthrough of the 2026 ExpoCut editor: add your first clip, trim it, drop on a title and music, add a filter, and export a share-ready video — all on your phone, in about ten minutes.
How to Use Keyframes to Animate Video (Zoom, Pan, Move)
Learn keyframes on your phone: animate position, scale, rotation and opacity to create zooms, pans, Ken Burns moves, motion paths and reveals — the single most powerful tool in mobile video editing.
How to Use Filters & LUTs on Your Phone (One Tap)
Turn flat phone footage into something cinematic. This guide shows exactly where filters live in the 2026 ExpoCut editor, how to browse 100+ looks by category, compare before and after, and dial in the perfect intensity — with real screenshots of every step.
Best Video Export Settings for Social (1080p & FPS)
The right export settings for TikTok, Reels, Shorts and YouTube: which resolution, aspect ratio, frame rate, format and quality to pick on your phone — and why 1080p MP4 is the safe default.
How to Color Grade Video on Your Phone (Cinematic Look)
Color grade video on your phone: exposure, contrast, white balance, saturation and LUTs explained simply — plus the fast path to a cinematic teal-and-orange look that makes phone footage feel like film.
How to Add Transitions Between Video Clips (Smoothly)
Add transitions between video clips on your phone: tap the joiner on the cut for a clip-to-clip dissolve, wipe, slide or shader transition, or give a single layer an intro/outro — and learn the timing rules that make them feel smooth instead of cheesy.
How to Add Animated Text & Titles to a Video
Add titles, captions and animated text to a video on your phone with ExpoCut's text tray: pick a style and font, position it with the on-canvas handles, and animate it in with fade, typewriter or particle effects — the right way to grab attention in the first second.
How to Add Music & Audio to a Video (the Right Way)
Add music, sound effects and voiceover to a video on your phone: line the beat up with your cut, fade in and out, duck music under speech, and balance levels so your audio sounds professional.
Automate Video Rendering with the ExpoCut MCP & Render Engine
Two surfaces, one pipeline. Design with an AI assistant on your phone over the in-app MCP server, then render in bulk on your laptop with the desktop Render Engine. A step-by-step guide that covers headless rendering, template import, slot filling from a spreadsheet, live preview streaming, and CI snapshot tests.
How to Use .ectpl: The ExpoCut Template & Canvas Render Format
An <code>.ectpl</code> file is not a video — it's a recipe for one. A complete, professional guide to slots, layer prototypes, the brand-binding inflater, the percentage-based canvas, asset bundles, and the on-device render pipeline that turns one recipe into a finished 4K video.