Birthday

Birthday — Month Roll

Slot-machine month roll lands on your birthday month, then twelve warm cinematic photos with amber glow, film vignette and sunset light leaks, closing on a gold 'make a wish' card. Drop in 12 photos.

  • Aspect ratio9:16
  • Screen time24.6s
  • Editable slots16
  • Best forInstagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts
  • Layers26
  • PriceFree

Opens Birthday — Month Roll 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.

  • Text Birthday month “→ AUGUST”
  • Photo Photo 1
  • Photo Photo 2
  • Photo Photo 3
  • Photo Photo 4
  • Photo Photo 5
  • Photo Photo 6
  • Photo Photo 7
  • Photo Photo 8
  • Photo Photo 9
  • Photo Photo 10
  • Photo Photo 11
  • Photo Photo 12
  • Text Caption “happy birthday”
  • Text Outro line “make a wish ✨”
  • Music Music

See how it’s built

Birthday — Month Roll is 26 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 24.6s and 9:16, expect roughly:

Birthday — Month Roll — estimated export size for 24.6s of video
Export settingFrame sizeMedium qualityHigh quality
720p 720×1280 11 MB 17 MB
1080p 1080×1920 25 MB 37 MB
4K 2160×3840 98 MB 146 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 Birthday — Month Roll template

1. Use the template

Tap Use Template, or find Birthday — Month Roll under Reels › Birthday in the app’s library.

2. Fill the 16 slots

You supply 12 photos · 1 music track · 3 text lines. 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.

Birthday — Month Roll is a blank-slot template you fill, running 24.6s at 9:16 Vertical. It uses the same engine as the rest of the app, so anything you see in the ExpoCut showcasefilters, transitions, text animations — can be added on top once the template is open.

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Make your own Birthday — Month Roll.

Free on iOS and Android — fill the slots, export up to 4K, post it the same day.

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