Snap Cut — Vertical

What it's for

The LUT reel in 9:16. The same run of cuts — ungraded frame first, then up to six grades of the same shot on the beat — sized for the feed people actually scroll. The payoff sits clear of the caption and the action rail.

Reach for it when

• Reels, TikTok and Shorts, where the whole screen is the frame
• A pack drop that has to work on a phone held upright
• Story posts where the viewer never turns the phone sideways

How it plays

Two things move for the vertical. Type scales against 1080 rather than 1920 — the widescreen sizes would render the label at 15 pixels on the device this cut exists for — and the whole payoff lifts 250 pixels off the bottom edge, because that strip belongs to the platform. A look name behind someone else's caption is a look name nobody reads.

Not the right pick when

A YouTube video or anything landing on a wide timeline. Use Snap Cut, the 16:9 build, which is the same edit at 1920 by 1080.

The REEL family

REEL is the one set that is not an overlay. Every other family draws on top of footage you already have; a REEL template IS the video — your frames fill it edge to edge and the chrome sits over your own images. That is why it exports opaque, and why the only thing to get right is the cut.

Format and export

Aspect

Vertical (9:16) · 1080 × 1920

Runs for

6 seconds

Built for

Any footage — it carries its own contrast

Publishes to

Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts

Exports as

MP4

Background

Flattened

Plan

Creator Pro and up

Edit it in the iReelz Studio and export an MP4 ready to upload.