Coffee and Contracts provides Reel templates for members to customize and post on Instagram. In this article, I'll teach you the best ways to use this feature.
STEP ONE: Find the reel you want to customize in your Content Vault
There are two ways to edit the Reel
ONE: Within Instagram (this is the easiest way on your phone)
TWO: Within Canva (desktop version)
Let's start by Editing the Template on Instagram
You will want to use your phone to navigate to the template in your dashboard or send yourself the link from your desktop.
Find the reel you want to customize in your Content Vault
In the caption of the template on your user dashboard, you will see:
✍️ Instructions: Use the Canva template linked here or use the Instagram Reel template here.
🔗 Click that link on your iPhone to open up Instagram or send it to yourself from your computer.
The link will open the template on Instagram
From your Instagram app at the bottom of the Reel, you will see white text with a gray background. The first is usually the music used in the video, if you slide the bar to the left you will see "Template by coffeecontracts"
Click "Template by coffeecontracts
Instagram will then open up a page with all the videos that have used our template. At the bottom click "Use Template"
You can now edit the text and videos in the template.
Click the first box with "2.2" and your camera roll will come up to replace our video with a video you select.
From the same screen view of your camera roll you can select your second video and so on until you've fulfilled 5 video slots in the template.
Click "Next" to see all your selected videos strung together in our template.
To edit the text click on the text in the middle of the screen. Edit your city name.
Click next and post your video with the caption we provided in your user dashboard
Edit the Reel Template in Canva
Locate the reel you want to use in Coffee and Contracts Content Vault
Click "Open in Canva"
Select the first video tile at the bottom of the template then drag and drop your video into the page.
(Click Upload files in purple at the top to upload your own videos)
Once your video is placed, adjust the duration of the video by clicking the tile at the bottom and dragging it with your mouse until you reach 1.3 seconds.
Repeat the process until all 5 video tiles are filled and the duration of each video matches the original template: 1.3 seconds, .08 seconds. .08 seconds, .09 seconds and .09 seconds.
Edit the text to your city name, copy and paste for all 5 videos.
Once Complete:
Click "Share"
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Once the video is downloaded It's time to post it on Instagram:
Airdrop the video to your phone
Upload the video to your Instagram as a Reel
Select a trending audio
You'll know if it's trending if the audio has an arrow beside the artist name
Copy the Coffee and Contracts caption from your dashboard.
Remove the instructions
Edit the hashtags