Watch a video that shows how to create an Instagram Reel using your phone.
Locate and Start the Instagram Reel Wizard
From the homepage tap Create New
Select Instagram in the Social Media category
Tap the Instagram Reel wizard
Enter in your Text Prompt
Use the voice to text feature on your phone, or manually type your text prompt into the text field. Tap Next to proceed.
Review and Configure the Wizard
Review the rest of the items on the wizard adjusting as needed:
Brand Voice - This enables Blaze to write content that sounds like you. You can training a Brand Voice using your website, a PDF, or Text. If you don't want to use a Brand Voice you can use up to 3 tones.
Brand Style - This enables Blaze to design visual content in your brand style. This can trained by scanning your Instagram or Facebook account.
Source Materials - This enables Blaze to reference information about your business, product, or service when authoring your content.
Generate in - This sets the language your reel will be generated in.
Click Generate Post Details to proceed.
Select your Template
Blaze will take the information you just submitted to suggest some templates that match the theme of your Reel. If you like the options Blaze suggested, tap it to select it. If not tap See All Templates.
There are hundred of visual templates that you can browse through using the filters and search bar. Tap a template to select it or tap Back to return to the original screen.
Review and Edit Post Caption
Scroll down beneath your template to review your caption.
Tapping the caption will allow you to edit it.
Tapping regenerate will instruct Blaze to try to generate a different caption.
Once you're satisfied with your captions scroll down to post name and project.
Configure Design Name and Project
Review and adjust the name of your Reel as well as the project that it will be created inside of.
Posting
This feature will tell Blaze to generate multiple versions of the same post but for different platforms. It's recommended that users experiment with this feature after they are familiar with creating and posting content using blaze wizards and comfortable navigating through projects to schedule and manage posts.
Tap Generate Post to continue.
Review and Edit your Reel
Blaze will generate your Reel inside of Blaze Designer. A fully featured web-based image editor. Tapping on an element on the canvas will bring up the options to edit and configure that element.
Add/Ensure a Video
Depending on the template you choose you may or may not already have a video included as part of your Reel.
You can add any video file you want. The process below covers selecting a video from the stock library.
To add a Video:
Tap Insert
Locate Stock Videos category
Tap See All
Search for video
Tap desired video to add it to canvas.
Adjust the Position and Scale of the Video
Tapping the video layer on the canvas will bring up the options for it.
Select the scale mode that best suits your design.
Scale to Fit (orange square) - Selected by default. Video is scaled so that the entire video is shown on the canvas.
Scale to Fill Icon (dark blue square) - Scales the video so that the video fills the entire canvas.
In Scale to Fit mode, position of the video can be adjusted vertically on the canvas by tapping and holding the video, then sliding up and down.
In Scale to Fill mode, position of the video can be adjusted horizontally by tapping and holding then sliding left or right.
Adjusting Layer Stack
New layers are always added to the top of the layer stack. This can result in other items on the canvas being covered up.
The Layer tool can help you re-organize where each layer is in the stack to best suit your design.
To adjust the order of the layers do the following:
Tap Layer tool
Tap and hold the desired layer
Drag the layer up or down
Release the layer in its desired location
Repeat as needed
Layers at the top of the stack appear in front.
Layers at the Bottom of the stack list appear in back.
Publish your Reel
To publish your Reel tap Publish
If you want to manually publish your design tap Save to Camera Roll
If you want to schedule your Reel, or publish it live from inside of Blaze tap Post Now*
*Blaze Integrations must be connected with your social accounts before you can automatically post content.
Schedule or Post Now
To post content right away simply tap Post Now (Blue highlight)
To schedule your Reel, tap edit then select the date and time you want your post to go live. (Magenta highlight)
Schedule for Later cont.
After you tap Edit, a calendar view will pop up. Simply select the date and time you wish to have the post go live.
Confirm your choice by tapping the button at the bottom highlighted in Magenta
Congratulations you've scheduled your Reel to go live automatically on your social media account at that date and time.