Instagram Reels Introdction

Instagram's TikTok clone reels allow longer videos, easier editing

The company says it is responding to user feedback on some fronts, with reels letting users create longer videos, extend timers, and add tools to trim and delete clips

But its app allows videos up to one minute in length, which is a popular option.

The reels, however, were launched with support for only 15-second videos

But Instagram is not giving them a full minute.

Instead, it is adding the ability to make reels up to 30 seconds.This may force users to create original content for the reels, rather than re-creating their long tikkok videos on Instagram.

While it's still early, we're seeing a lot more entertaining, creative content, "said Tessa Lyons-Ling, director of the Instagram reels.

Twicks for the video creation and editing process can help simplify some of the more annoying pain points, but do not fully address the problems facing the reels.

Is TikTok so easy to use that you don't have to be a great video editor to see equally polished, abbreviated videos for music.

For example, with TikTok's Sound Sync feature, the app can automatically find music synchronized with your video clip, if you don't want to take full control of the editing experience.

On the reels, more manual editing is involved in terms of finding the right music and matching it with your editing - which you will have to do yourself, rather

than leaving it up to Tech to do it.

Despite being a shameless attempt to be a TikTok clone, Reels lacks other TikTok features such as a couple or its "family pairing" parental controls.

This also makes it difficult to figure out how to share the video privately.

Reels can be posted in Stories, where they disappear, or they can appear on your tab on your profile - which is a confusing design option.

Also, the integration of reels into the Instagram app contributes to app bloat.

TikTok is an entire social network, but Reels is trying to squeeze that broader creative experience with many other features as well as stories, shopping, live video, IGTV and

That said, Reels has managed to onboard many high-profile users.

Today, it has toppings from creators such as Billy Porter, Blair Imani, Doug the Pug, Prince William and Kate and Eighton Berneth as examples of its top material.

Tiktok's fate is still a big question mark, but it is unclear, at this point, if Tiktok will be ready to absorb viewers in the event of an Instagram ban.

Instagram says the 30-second reel-making option is underway today, while new trimming and editing features are now live.

The timer will also expand in the next few days.

The facility will be available in 50 countries around the world where reels are available and also elsewhere, as the reels expand into new markets.It new feature will show to update Instagram.