19.9s
9:16
Stacked Reveal (wedding)
Four photo bands reveal one per beat, then blur-in / white bloom / zoom-blur photo cuts (19.9 s, fast-tabla qawwali). No filters — the photos carry the colour.
- 11 photos
- 2 music tracks
Wedding
Beat-Drop Flash
Three horizontal photo bands blur in under a warm flash and hold while the muffled qawwali, drum roll and riser build, then a white flash on the drop reveals the main photo zoom-blurred (10.8 s). No filters.
- Aspect ratio9:16
- Screen time10.8s
- Editable slots7
- Best forInstagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts
- Layers10
- PriceFree
Opens Beat-Drop Flash in ExpoCut on iOS or Android, ready to fill. Don’t have the app yet? You’ll be sent to the store.
What you replace
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.
- Photo Band 1 (top third: seated, tikka and choker)
- Photo Band 2 (middle third: frontal close-up)
- Photo Band 3 (bottom third: looking up)
- Photo Main photo (after the drop: full length before the curtains)
- Music Music build (muffled) — Melaa-e-Dil qawwali with tabla (PoorArtistt, Pixabay #568093)
- Music Music drop (full band) — Melaa-e-Dil qawwali with tabla (PoorArtistt, Pixabay #568093)
- Music SFX bed (opening hit, drum roll, riser, impact + whoosh on the drop)
See how it’s built
Beat-Drop Flash is 10 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 →How big the exported file will be
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 10.8s and 9:16, expect roughly:
| Export setting | Frame size | Medium quality | High quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| 720p | 720×1280 | 5.0 MB | 7.3 MB |
| 1080p | 1080×1920 | 11 MB | 16 MB |
| 4K | 2160×3840 | 43 MB | 64 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.
How to use the Beat-Drop Flash template
1. Use the template
Tap Use Template, or find Beat-Drop Flash under Reels › Wedding in the app’s library.
2. Fill the 7 slots
You supply 4 photos · 3 music tracks. Everything else — the cuts, grade, transitions and text motion — is already timed.
3. Export at 9:16
Render on-device up to 4K in the shape this template was designed for, then post to Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts.
Beat-Drop Flash is a blank-slot template you fill, running 10.8s 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.
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Diagonal Bands (wedding)
Three tilted photo slabs appear one by one over a muffled qawwali intro, then the music opens on a hard cut and nine photos follow with cross-dissolves, a glow and a red tint (18.8 s). No filters — the photos carry the colour.
- 12 photos
- 3 music tracks
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Wedding Glow Up
Typewriter script title over three opening photos, a white-out wash and film-edge flash, then burn flashes, a white burn, an orange flash, a red pop and a sun flare between nine more photos, ending on a fade to black (24.9 s, dhol and dholki). No filters.
- 2 text lines
- 2 music tracks
- 12 photos
Make your own Beat-Drop Flash.
Free on iOS and Android — fill the slots, export up to 4K, post it the same day.
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