Interface reference

Open in the app: Manual edit

Choose your own parts, starting with videos or an empty reel.

• Choose videos first
• Start empty

Open in the app: Auto reel

Choose clips, a target length and a style.

• Auto Reel

Open in the app: From a template

A template combines a transition theme, looks, movement, a part pattern and music choices. It still needs your media. Inspect its settings, use it, then review the resulting parts. Choose New to create a template, or duplicate one to edit your own version. Pattern steps control allowed media, relative length and movement; an automatic pattern lets the app choose.

• Templates

Open in the app: Projects

Open a saved project to keep editing. Rename changes its name; Duplicate creates another project. Search and sort help you find a reel. Archive hides a project from the usual list; Show archived lets you restore it. Deleting a project does not delete its original media files. Keep those files available so the project can reopen them.

• Home
• Projects
• Templates
• Transitions
• Music
• Settings

Open in the app: Search projects

Open a saved project to keep editing. Rename changes its name; Duplicate creates another project. Search and sort help you find a reel. Archive hides a project from the usual list; Show archived lets you restore it. Deleting a project does not delete its original media files. Keep those files available so the project can reopen them.

• Sort
• Last updated
• Date created
• Name
• Duration
• Size
• Ascending
• Descending

Open in the app: More → Rename

Open the ⋮ menu on the project card, then choose Rename or Duplicate.

Save keeps the editable project. Rename changes this project's name. To make a separate version, use Duplicate in Projects. Undo and Redo step through edits; Export creates a video file.

• Duplicate

Open in the app: Archive

Open a saved project to keep editing. Rename changes its name; Duplicate creates another project. Search and sort help you find a reel. Archive hides a project from the usual list; Show archived lets you restore it. Deleting a project does not delete its original media files. Keep those files available so the project can reopen them.

• Show archived
• Restore from archive

Open in the app: Select projects

Open a saved project to keep editing. Rename changes its name; Duplicate creates another project. Search and sort help you find a reel. Archive hides a project from the usual list; Show archived lets you restore it. Deleting a project does not delete its original media files. Keep those files available so the project can reopen them.

• Select all
• Clear selection
• Delete

Open in the app: Sources, in order

Import a video, then select the parts to use.

Start without a video. Open this source to add, arrange and edit photos and titles.

• Add

Open in the app: Preview

Open a source in Sources, then select or add parts to put them on the timeline.

• Play
• Pause
• Zoom in
• Zoom out

Open in the app: Theme

In the reel toolbar, choose Theme. If it is hidden, expand the … menu and choose Theme. This sets the reel’s transition style. Interface colours are under Settings → Theme.

A theme chooses transitions throughout the reel. Transitions you set manually are kept.

Mute every video part, including parts added later. Music and preview-volume settings are not changed.

• Mute all source videos
• View

Open in the app: Save

Save keeps the editable project. Rename changes this project's name. To make a separate version, use Duplicate in Projects. Undo and Redo step through edits; Export creates a video file.

• Undo
• Redo
• Rename
• Duplicate
• Export reel

Open in the app: Select

Select parts on the source video's timeline

• Preview

Open in the app: Start a part here

Tap a start on the filmstrip, press + beside the playhead, then tap an end. Use Add part by time for exact values. Drag an edge to trim. Use Scroll the timeline to pan and Reorder parts to move a part.

• Cancel part selection
• Add part by time

Open in the app: Add part by time

Enter seconds, m:ss.fff, or h:mm:ss.fff. Milliseconds are optional.

• Start
• End

Open in the app: Reorder parts

This part follows the previous one. Drag its numbered handle in the list to reorder it. On the filmstrip, use Reorder parts; ordinary dragging moves the playhead.

• Scroll the timeline
• Select frames
• Split the part here
• Select the whole video
• Clear selection
• Fit the whole video in view

Open in the app: Preview volume

Changes the volume on this screen only. To change the reel's audio, use the audio controls in the editor.

• Play whole video
• Play original audio
• Play reel audio
• Mute all parts

Open in the app: Reel

Total duration of the reel, including all sources. It updates as you change the parts.

• Show the parts panel

Open in the app: Preview

Watch selected parts with effects and transitions

• Play
• Play this part
• Stop

Open in the app: Reorder parts

This part follows the previous one. Drag its numbered handle in the list to reorder it. On the filmstrip, use Reorder parts; ordinary dragging moves the playhead.

Drag along the block to move the playhead. Use Reorder parts to move the overlay in time, or drag its numbered handle in the list.

• Part settings
• Delete

Open in the app: Add to this source

Use the + menu beside a part to add a photo. Choose Standalone part for a timed photo in the sequence, or Overlay to show it over the continuing picture. Adjust Picture, Framing, Look and Effect; Colour controls the background of a standalone image. Add text as a separate item when the photo needs a caption.

Choose Add text beside a part. In Placement, Standalone part gives the text its own time; Overlay puts it over the continuing picture without extending the reel. Overlay together shares the next overlay's time. Enter your words in Text, set Position, and use Crawl and Motion for animation. Steps appears for row-based crawl timing. Colour is the background of a standalone text part.

• Add image
• Add text
• Standalone part
• Overlay

Open in the app: Transition between parts

Open the transition row between two parts. Preview choices in the gallery, pick one and set its timing, then confirm. Watch the join in context: a transition can hide a short action or text. Start and end treatments belong to the reel, while a join connects its neighbouring parts.

• Open gallery

Open in the app: Settings for all parts

Applies to every part unless a part has its own settings.

• Apply this look to every part of this video

Open in the app: Lens

Zoom magnifies the picture. Horizontal and vertical position move it inside the canvas. Use these to keep the subject in view after changing the reel's aspect ratio.

• Zoom
• Horizontal pan
• Vertical pan

Open in the app: Horizon

Rotate to level the horizon. Positive values turn the picture clockwise.

• Straighten

Open in the app: Frame

Framing changes which edges of the picture are visible. Drag the frame handles or adjust the four crop values. Check the result in the reel's chosen aspect ratio. The flip switches mirror the picture horizontally or vertically.

• Flip horizontally
• Flip vertically
• Crop left
• Crop right
• Crop top
• Crop bottom

Open in the app: Filter

Preview each look on this frame at the selected strength. Select one to apply it.

100% applies the full look. Lower values blend it with the original.

Fine-tune the look while keeping its base style and name.

Compare the original frame with this part's adjustments. The split view is only for preview and is not exported.

• Look
• Look strength
• Compare with the original

Open in the app: Underwater

Analyse the footage to estimate and correct underwater colour loss and blue-green casts while preserving the shot's brightness.

Use five frames to estimate one correction for the whole part. Best for footage with consistent underwater conditions.

Adapt the correction as underwater conditions change, rather than using one average for the whole part.

Keep the existing analysis results. Trimming, moving sliders and reopening this panel do not rerun the analysis. Run Analyse again to update it.

How quickly the correction responds to changes. At zero, it follows each measured frame and may flicker. Smoothing does not cross shot changes.

Fade out correction on surface shots and other non-underwater frames to avoid an orange cast.

• Analyse this part
• Quick analysis
• Frame-by-frame correction
• Lock analysis
• Correction strength
• Compare with the original
• Manual adjustments

Open in the app: Effect

Choose one motion preset for this part. Selecting another replaces the previous preset.

Keep one area sharp and bright while softening and darkening the rest. Use keyframes to make the spotlight follow a subject.

• Motion
• Spotlight

Open in the app: Volume

Part volume and source volume multiply. Mute this part silences the selected audio; fades soften its beginning and end. Preview volume changes what you hear while editing, not the exported mix.

• Volume
• Mute this part
• Fade in
• Fade out

Open in the app: Adjust

Exposure changes overall brightness; Contrast separates light and dark tones. Highlights and Whites affect brighter areas; Shadows and Blacks affect darker areas. Saturation changes colour intensity, while Vibrance boosts muted colours more selectively. Temperature shifts the warm–cool balance and Tint the green–magenta balance. Fade lifts dark tones for a softer look. Compare with the original after adjusting.

Compare the original frame with this part's adjustments. The split view is only for preview and is not exported.

• Exposure
• Contrast
• Saturation
• Temperature
• Tint
• Highlights
• Shadows
• Whites
• Blacks
• Vibrance
• Fade

Open in the app: Trim

Enter seconds, m:ss.fff, or h:mm:ss.fff. Milliseconds are optional.

• Start
• End

Open in the app: Speed

Lower than the base speed slows the footage down. Higher speeds it up.

The share of the part used for each speed change. Profiles with a return use this duration for both ramps.

The share of the part played at the target speed before returning.

Play the picture and its motion from end to start. Music keeps playing forward; original video sound is muted.

• Base speed
• Speed profile
• Target speed
• Target position
• Ramp duration
• Target hold duration
• Speed easing

Open in the app: Placement

Plays as a separate part in the sequence, adding its duration to the reel.

Appears over the parts underneath without stopping their playback or audio.

Shares the time of the next overlay in the list, so both appear together. The item higher in the list is drawn over the other.

There is no following overlay to share time with yet, so this item currently plays as a standalone part.

• Standalone part
• Overlay
• Overlay together

Open in the app: Text

The preview uses your imported font. Export may use a substitute if the font cannot be embedded.

Sets the text direction for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Persian. This affects word order, not just alignment.

• Open the editor
• Font
• Import a font
• Size
• Letter spacing
• Line spacing
• Alignment
• Bold
• Italic
• Right-to-left text
• Text colour
• Text background
• Text background padding
• Shadow
• Shadow colour
• Shadow offset
• Shadow softness
• Outline colour
• Outline width

Open in the app: Placement → Standalone part → Colour

The title card's background colour. Black by default.

• Background

Open in the app: Position

Drag the text on the preview to position it, or use the sliders.

• Horizontal position
• Vertical position
• Size
• Rotation

Open in the app: Crawl

Animate text in perspective, keep it all visible, or show one text block at a time. A block can contain several lines.

• Steps

Open in the app: Motion

Choose one motion preset for this part. Selecting another replaces the previous preset.

Crawl controls this text's entrance and exit. Turn it off to animate the whole title instead.

• Amount
• Share of part duration
• Return at the end
• Entrance
• Exit
• While visible
• Effect duration
• Direction
• Travel distance
• Effect strength

Open in the app: Placement

Plays as a separate part in the sequence, adding its duration to the reel.

Appears over the parts underneath without stopping their playback or audio.

Shares the time of the next overlay in the list, so both appear together. The item higher in the list is drawn over the other.

• Standalone part
• Overlay
• Overlay together

Open in the app: Picture

Drag the image on the canvas to move it. Drag a corner to resize it.

• Horizontal position
• Vertical position
• Size
• Rotation

Open in the app: Framing

Framing changes which edges of the picture are visible. Drag the frame handles or adjust the four crop values. Check the result in the reel's chosen aspect ratio. The flip switches mirror the picture horizontally or vertically.

• Crop left
• Crop right
• Crop top
• Crop bottom

Open in the app: Look

Preview each look on this frame at the selected strength. Select one to apply it.

100% applies the full look. Lower values blend it with the original.

• Look
• Look strength

Open in the app: Effect

Combine a gentle zoom with a slow pan to bring a still image to life.

Photo overlays cannot use motion or spotlight effects in this build. Change the photo to a standalone part to use those effects.

• Motion
• Spotlight

Open in the app: Placement → Standalone part → Colour

Colour visible around the image and through transparent areas. Black by default.

• Background

Open in the app: Text behaviour

All the text stays visible throughout. Position it using the position controls.

Show each text block on its own, then transition to the next.

Move text along a tilted plane, from large at the near edge to small at the far edge: the classic opening crawl.

In Travel mode, text moves from the near edge towards the far edge. Up creates the classic opening crawl. Direction does not affect Hold or One text block at a time.

Position the text and its movement path. Text blocks can sit near the bottom, or a crawl can move along one side.

• Hold
• One text block at a time
• Travel

Open in the app: Length

All text blocks stay visible, so the reading time applies to the entire text.

Each text block has its own reading time, excluding the transition to the next text block.

Reading time is estimated from how long a text block remains visible during its movement.

The total duration comes from the individual text block timings. Adjust a text block, or turn off individual timings to set the total directly.

• Use suggested duration

Open in the app: Text behaviour → One text block at a time → Steps

Set how long each text block stays readable before its exit effect. Reading and effect times determine the total duration.

Show each text block on its own, then transition to the next.

Open in the app: Text behaviour → One text block at a time → Steps → Lines per text block

Fit the text into lines, then group them using the lines-per-block setting. This changes the text layout; Undo restores the previous version.

Show the last text block first. By default, blocks are read from top to bottom.

Open in the app: Text behaviour → One text block at a time → Text block entrance → Entrance effect

Except for Fade in and None, entrances animate individual pieces. Choose their size and order under Pieces, then set the entrance duration.

The whole text block leaves together.

Pieces leave in sequence, using the size and order chosen under Pieces.

Open in the app: Text behaviour → Travel → Text block exit → Flash away → Pieces → Animate by

All the text moves together.

Each text block moves separately when it reaches the trigger position.

Each text block is split into words, which move in sequence.

Animate individual characters. This is the finest text-based split and takes the most preparation.

Split each text block into a grid of small rectangular pieces of the text. This is the default split for burst effects.

Split the visible strokes of the letters into tiny independent fragments.

Open in the app: Blank time at the end

Added after the length: how long the background stays on screen once the text has disappeared.

Open in the app: Show

This track is listed in the catalogue, but its audio is not on this device. Download it or import the audio file to use it.

• Included with the app
• Downloaded
• Favourites
• Imported
• Available to download
• Recent

Open in the app: Search music

Search by title, then narrow the results by category, track length and availability. Clear the filters to see more tracks.

• Style
• Length
• Title

Open in the app: Play preview

Play auditions the track. The heart saves a favourite. Use + to add music; if the reel already has music, choose a block to replace or add another. Download unavailable audio first.

• Favourite
• Add as new
• Download
• Cancel download

Open in the app: Import music

Import an audio file into your library, then use + on its row to add it to the reel. Importing alone does not change the reel.

Find a track on pixabay.com and paste its link here. The audio will be downloaded to this device and added to your library.

• Get music from Pixabay
• Check for new music

Open in the app: In this reel

Preview a track, then select it to replace the music in this block. The block's other settings stay the same.

• No music
• Choose music

Open in the app: Music settings

Gradually increase the music volume at the start and lower it at the end.

Set how loud this music plays. Adding the first track mutes the original video audio; raise the source or part volume to mix it back in.

• Music volume
• Fade in
• Fade out
• Start music at

Open in the app: Change the music

Preview a track, then select it to replace the music in this block. The block's other settings stay the same.

• Choose music
• Add as new

Open in the app: Start in reel

Reel start and end set when the music is heard. Track start sets where playback begins within the audio file.

• End in reel
• End with the reel
• Start within track

Open in the app: Music volume

Set how loud this music plays. Adding the first track mutes the original video audio; raise the source or part volume to mix it back in.

Open in the app: Open gallery

Preview each transition using this junction's duration and strength. Select one to apply it.

• Search transitions
• Transition family

Open in the app: Transition settings

Open the transition row between two parts. Preview choices in the gallery, pick one and set its timing, then confirm. Watch the join in context: a transition can hide a short action or text. Start and end treatments belong to the reel, while a join connects its neighbouring parts.

• First half duration
• Second half duration
• Hold colour
• Custom easing curve

Open in the app: Use this duration for the whole reel

When on, update the duration of all timed transitions without changing their other settings. Short shots may limit the duration. When off, change only this junction.

• First half duration
• Second half duration

Open in the app: Done → Home → Transitions → My transitions

Preview every built-in transition, then create and manage your own reusable transitions.

• Create transition
• Transition name
• Built-in · read-only
• Custom transition

Open in the app: Source videos

Drag a source, or use the arrows, to set the order the reel runs them in.

• Move earlier
• Move later

Open in the app: Target reel duration

The app chooses the reel length from the strongest usable moments and the selected music.

Use the requested length. If it is not possible, a shorter option will be offered.

• Automatic duration
• Exact duration

Open in the app: Choose music

Picked after the videos are analysed, to fit their length and movement.

• Choose for me
• Music start point
• Keep the music start point

Open in the app: Style

At zero, all joins are hard cuts. Higher values use more transitions and make them longer.

How much of the reel may use the videos’ own sound, at most. Only clear moments are used, never noise, so it may be less, or none at all.

• Pace
• Shot order
• Prefer movement
• Prefer faces
• Transition amount
• Keep original sound

Open in the app: Precision

Lower precision speeds creation by using fewer samples; 100% makes no change.

Analyses and applies the default underwater correction before creating the reel.

• Underwater footage
• Create reel

Open in the app: Read more

If Underwater is on, we first check frames throughout each video and work out colour corrections before choosing scenes.

We scan your videos to find scene changes, subjects and interesting moments.

We pick usable sections, avoiding shaky, blurry, blank or badly exposed footage and repeated moments.

We analyse the music’s rhythm and changes in energy. With Choose for me, we also find a track that suits your footage.

We arrange and trim the scenes to fit your duration, pace, order and style, timing cuts and transitions to the music where appropriate.

We check the chosen scenes more closely, including their first and last frames, and adjust the edit if needed.

We finish the sound mix, keeping suitable original sound if requested, and build an editable reel. More or longer videos and higher precision mean more work for your device.

• Read more

Open in the app: Use template

Built-in templates cannot be edited. Duplicate this one to make it yours.

• All
• Built-in
• My templates
• Category

Open in the app: New template → Editing recipe

Choose the options the template can apply to each part. Using the same seed and source material produces the same choices.

When off, always use the first option in each selected list.

Leave the pattern empty to let Auto Reel choose the number and length of shots for your target duration.

The pattern repeats as needed to fill the reel. It defines a rhythm, not a fixed list of clips.

1× follows the reel's usual pace. All steps are scaled together to fit the target duration.

• Available themes
• Available looks
• Available motion presets
• Structure
• Vary choices by part
• Relative shot length
• Add pattern step
• Use automatic pacing
• Images
• Videos

Open in the app: New template → Music

Keep existing music preserves the reel’s music. Suggested music lets the template choose a matching track. Some bundled templates specify a fixed track; the template editor offers Keep existing music and Suggested music. Review the result in the reel’s Music panel.

• Fixed track
• Keeps your music
• Suggests a track

Open in the app: New template

A template combines a transition theme, looks, movement, a part pattern and music choices. It still needs your media. Inspect its settings, use it, then review the resulting parts. Choose New to create a template, or duplicate one to edit your own version. Pattern steps control allowed media, relative length and movement; an automatic pattern lets the app choose.

• New template
• Duplicate
• Name
• Description

Open in the app: Editing

Usually faster and more energy-efficient. Turn this off if hardware export fails on this device.

• Preview quality
• Default canvas format
• Prefer hardware encoder

Open in the app: Getting started

Follow the highlighted controls to create a reel with a sample video, title and photo.

• Replay the getting-started guide

Open in the app: Theme

Choose the interface language and colour theme. System follows the device appearance; Light, Dark and Pure black keep the chosen appearance. These settings change the editor interface, not the colours in your exported video.

• Language
• System
• Light
• Dark
• Pure black

Open in the app: Accessibility

Feel a short vibration when snapping on the timeline, splitting a clip or confirming a destructive action.

Places the tools and playback controls on the left.

• Reduce motion
• High contrast
• Haptic feedback
• Left-handed timeline

Open in the app: Storage and cache

Waveforms and analysis results will be rebuilt when needed. Projects, original media, saved thumbnails and preview images will be kept.

Remove downloaded audio files without removing their catalogue entries. You can download them again later.

• Clear caches
• Downloaded music

Open in the app: Privacy

FrameOSU edits and exports on your device, without accounts, ads or tracking. Your media is never uploaded. Internet access is used for music catalogue updates and downloads, Pixabay imports, suggestions you send, and links you choose to open.

• Privacy policy
• Music library

Open in the app: Diagnostics → Export diagnostics

A text report of this device's media capabilities, with sensitive details removed. It stays on your device unless you share it.

• Export diagnostics

Open in the app: About

Restore the default settings? Your projects, media and exports will not be changed.

• Suggest an improvement
• Reset all settings

Open in the app: Export preset

Return to the Reel page and watch from beginning to end with sound. Check the first frame, every join, text readability, music and the ending. Save the editable project, then open Export. Choose the size, quality and a format your device supports. Wait for completion and open the exported file to check it. Saving a project and exporting a video are different actions.

• Resolution
• Quality
• Width
• Height

Open in the app: Video codec

Available formats depend on your device. Choose a codec, file type and frame rate that the app supports together. If a combination is unavailable, change these options before starting the export.

• H.264 (most compatible)
• HEVC (efficient compression)
• File type
• Frame rate
• Project frame rate

Open in the app: Compression

Higher bitrates can improve quality but create larger files. Auto uses the selected quality setting.

• Video bitrate
• Audio bitrate

Open in the app: Export

Return to the Reel page and watch from beginning to end with sound. Check the first frame, every join, text readability, music and the ending. Save the editable project, then open Export. Choose the size, quality and a format your device supports. Wait for completion and open the exported file to check it. Saving a project and exporting a video are different actions.

• Preparing…
• Exporting
• Cancel export
• Reel exported
• Show in folder
• Export cancelled
• Export failed