Trending CapCut-style portrait reel: one clip, five beat-synced grade sections. Motion-blur zoom intro, flash cuts, a dip-to-black, and a warm→teal cinematic arc. Drop in one portrait clip.
Opens Aesthetic Portrait — Velocity Grade in ExpoCut on iOS or Android, ready to fill. Don’t have the app yet? You’ll be sent to the store.
Each slot below is a hole in the finished edit. Fill it and the animation, grade and timing around it stay exactly as they are.
Aesthetic Portrait — Velocity Grade is 5 layers of video, text and sound stacked on a timeline. The structure view draws that timeline out — when each piece appears, how long it holds, what sits in front of what, and exactly which layers are yours to replace. No wording or footage, just the shape of the edit.
Reads the published template live each time you open it, so it always matches what the app loads.
View timeline & layer structure →ExpoCut renders on your device and picks a bitrate from the frame size and the quality you choose, so the file scales with both. At 12.1s and 9:16, expect roughly:
| Export setting | Frame size | Medium quality | High quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| 720p | 720×1280 | 5.5 MB | 8.2 MB |
| 1080p | 1080×1920 | 12 MB | 18 MB |
| 4K | 2160×3840 | 48 MB | 72 MB |
These are estimates from the encoder’s own bitrate rule, not fixed numbers. Busy footage — fast motion, grain, confetti, hard cuts — compresses worse and lands above the estimate; a mostly-static talking head lands below it. 1080p is the right choice for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts, which all re-encode what you upload anyway; 4K is worth the extra size when you want to crop or reframe later. Uploading is where a big file costs you, not the render.
Tap Use Template, or find Aesthetic Portrait — Velocity Grade under Reels › Cinematic in the app’s library.
You supply 1 video clip. Everything else — the cuts, grade, transitions and text motion — is already timed.
Render on-device up to 4K in the shape this template was designed for, then post to Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts.
Aesthetic Portrait — Velocity Grade is a blank-slot template you fill, running 12.1s at 9:16 Vertical. It uses the same engine as the rest of the app, so anything you see in the ExpoCut showcase — filters, transitions, text animations — can be added on top once the template is open.
7.4s
16:9
A punchy 16:9 title opener rebuilt frame-for-frame from a reference reel: tall rounded panels deal in over black while a serif title types out and a colour-cycling loading bar counts up, the panels regroup into a row of rounded squares over grey, then diagonal slash wipes carry a hero city montage to a neon-street finale. Drop in one aerial clip for the panels and four landscape heroes.
22s
9:16
One clip, eight beat-synced velocity segments — motion-blur ramps, white-flash cuts, zoom punches, alternating warm/cool grades and sun-flare light, with a hook and an end line. Drop in one video.
11.2s
16:9
A high-energy 16:9 travel montage rebuilt from a reference reel: a calm establishing shot, then flash-cut builds, an aerial-ocean hero beat, and a rapid neon night climax — white-flash section breaks, subtle push-ins on every shot, and a teal-and-orange cinematic grade that shifts cool → warm → dark across the cut. Drop in 12 landscape clips.
Free on iOS and Android — fill the slots, export up to 4K, post it the same day.
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