41.6s
9:16
Travel Cinematic
Premium summer travel montage — beaches, palms, waterfalls, ocean sunset. Grade, light leaks, bokeh, text moments + summer music.
- 12 video clips
- 14 text lines
- 1 music track
Travel
Droplet Lens Montage
Four landscape beats joined by a water-droplet reveal. A blob falls, lands off-centre, and the next clip bursts open from exactly where it hit — the rim bending the picture like a lens. Recreated frame-by-frame from a reference montage.
- Aspect ratio9:16
- Screen time5.2s
- Editable slots6
- Best forInstagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts
- Layers9
- PriceFree
Opens Droplet Lens Montage 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 Watermark “WANDERLUST”
- Video Clip 1
- Video Clip 2
- Video Clip 3
- Video Clip 4
- Music Music
See how it’s built
Droplet Lens Montage is 9 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 5.2s and 9:16, expect roughly:
| Export setting | Frame size | Medium quality | High quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| 720p | 720×1280 | 2.4 MB | 3.5 MB |
| 1080p | 1080×1920 | 5.2 MB | 7.8 MB |
| 4K | 2160×3840 | 21 MB | 31 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 Droplet Lens Montage template
1. Use the template
Tap Use Template, or find Droplet Lens Montage under Reels › Travel in the app’s library.
2. Fill the 6 slots
You supply 4 video clips · 1 text line · 1 music track. 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.
Droplet Lens Montage is a blank-slot template you fill, running 5.2s 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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Make your own Droplet Lens Montage.
Free on iOS and Android — fill the slots, export up to 4K, post it the same day.
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