# Templates

> Ready edits with slots for your own clips and words, and templates of your own made from any edit.

https://driftedit.app/manual/templates/

A template is an edit with its cuts, transitions, effects and words already made, and slots where your own clips and words go. It is the quickest way to a polished video in a format you like.

![The Templates panel](https://driftedit.app/manual/shots/templates-light.webp)

*The Templates panel*

## Using a template
1. Open **Templates** on the left. Templates are grouped by kind: **Shorts and Reels**, **Montages**, **YouTube**, **Social**, **Promos** and **Words**.
2. Each card says how many shots it needs and how many words to write. Press **Use**.
3. Choose what fills each slot: a clip or photo from your bin for each shot, your own words for each text. A built-in template's song is a beat from the Library; choose your own song instead if you like. **Add files** imports more.
4. Name the new sequence and press **Make**. The template opens as a new sequence of your project.

A slot you leave empty stays a coloured placeholder: drop a clip from the bin on it later to fill it.

## Making a template of your own
Any edit can become a template:

1. Open the edit and press **Save this edit as a template**.
2. Give it a **Name**, say **What it is for**, and choose its **Kind**.
3. Under **Slots**, choose which clips become slots for whoever uses it. Everything else stays as you made it; a file it still plays, such as a logo or a song, goes inside the template.
4. **Save** keeps it under **Yours**; **Save as a file** saves a `.drifttemplate` to share.

**Open a template file** brings in one that someone shared. Signed in, your templates follow you to your other devices, without the files they carry.