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.

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.