9:16 holiday greeting: a phone lock screen rises over a soft-focus Christmas tree, a notification pops and grows into a message card (13 s).
Opens Holiday Phone Notification 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.
Holiday Phone Notification is 30 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 13.1s and 9:16, expect roughly:
| Export setting | Frame size | Medium quality | High quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| 720p | 720×1280 | 6.0 MB | 8.9 MB |
| 1080p | 1080×1920 | 13 MB | 20 MB |
| 4K | 2160×3840 | 52 MB | 78 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 Holiday Phone Notification under Reels › Christmas & New Year in the app’s library.
You supply 2 photos · 6 text lines. 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.
Holiday Phone Notification is a blank-slot template you fill, running 13.1s 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.
Looking for something similar? See all christmas & new year reel templates, or browse the full reel template library.
Holiday Phone Notification runs 13.1s (about 13 seconds) and is built at 9:16 Vertical. Once it is open in ExpoCut you can trim clips or edit layers on the timeline to change the length.
You fill in 2 photos and 6 text lines. The slots are: Backdrop (blurred), Phone wallpaper, Clock, Date, Notification, Message 1 and more. Everything else — the cuts, animation, transitions and timing — is already built.
It is a 9:16 Vertical template, which suits Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts. You can post the exported video anywhere that accepts that shape.
Yes. Holiday Phone Notification is included with ExpoCut on iOS and Android, and you can export your finished edit up to 4K.
Tap “Use Template” on this page. If ExpoCut is installed, Holiday Phone Notification opens in the Reels tab ready to fill; if not, you are sent to the App Store or Google Play. Replace the slots with your own content and export.
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Free on iOS and Android — fill the slots, export up to 4K, post it the same day.
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