Line-by-line lyric/story reel — warm cinematic grade with amber glow + vignette, an intro blur→clear push, four stacked verses (each with a yellow highlight line), and a swirl-in outro. Drop in one vertical clip and your own lines.
Opens Story Teller 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.
Story Teller is 22 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 25.7s and 9:16, expect roughly:
| Export setting | Frame size | Medium quality | High quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| 720p | 720×1280 | 12 MB | 17 MB |
| 1080p | 1080×1920 | 26 MB | 39 MB |
| 4K | 2160×3840 | 102 MB | 153 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 Story Teller under Reels › Storytelling in the app’s library.
You supply 1 video clip · 20 text lines · 1 music track. 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.
Story Teller is a blank-slot template you fill, running 25.7s 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.
5.2s
9:16
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.
24.6s
9:16
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.
22s
9:16
Cute white scrapbook — six tilted polaroid photo slots that build across the reel, a four-line typewriter lyric, playful cat + bow stickers and a prism light sparkle. Drop in 6 photos.
Free on iOS and Android — fill the slots, export up to 4K, post it the same day.
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